Ryan Vogelsong pitched brilliantly Monday night. Yes, again. But he did it without his AIDS ribbon. As Hank Schulman writes, Vogelsong wasn't making some sort of statement; he's not baseball's Cosmo Kramer. He was just wearing a jersey on which the ribbon hadn't been sewn, because he's got two types of jersey. (I didn't know there are two types; did you?) Even more interesting is this bit from Schulman ...
Ryan Vogelsong’s Equipment Malfunction
Some years back, a Giants reliever named Mark Dewey wore his ribbon sideways as a protest to the event. He considered himself a Christian and took the wrong-headed view that supporting AIDS research was tantamount to support the "homosexual agenda."
Mark Dewey was on my Strat-O-Matic team -- the Troy (Kansas) Haymakers -- for at least one season, and was one of my more dependable reliefers. If only I had known ...
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