05.18.08

Offensive Fukudome shirts still for sale

Posted in All posts, Hyphen, Baseball, Race relations at 3:12 pm by harry

Vendors outside Wrigley Field and on eBay are still selling shirts that have “Horry Kow” on the front and Japanese ball player Kosuke Fukudome’s name and number on the back. The shirts poke fun at Japanese accents using the familiar “holy cow” that the late Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray used to always use. Read the rest of this entry »