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MLB Commentator Apologizes for Slavery Reference During Game

‘POOR CHOICE OF WORDS’

Jim Kaat said of Yoán Moncada, “Get a 40-acre field full of them.”

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An MLB broadcaster apologized Friday evening for referencing slavery in an attempt to compliment a player on the Chicago White Sox. When Yoán Moncada stepped up to the plate, Jim Kaat’s co-announcer recalled that the first time he had seen Moncada play, he asked the Baltimore Orioles, “Can we have...

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