McCarthyism at the Hall of Fame

The president of the Baseball Hall of Fame cancelled a 15th anniversary celebration of the movie Bull Durham on account of the anti-war sentiments of would-be participants Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins. There is substantial discussion of this over at Kos and at Peace Tree Farm (here and here). Doug Pappas in his Business of Baseball Blog notes how condemnation of the HOF’s move is coming from all over including noted baseball writers Roger Kahn and Jules Tygiel.

Sigh. Fortunately baseball can survive bad institutional leadership
such as we have now. I liked the comment at Kos that baseball is a
non-violent, process-oriented sport in a goal-oriented, violent society.