Chicago White Sox star Tim Anderson has accused Yankees slugger Josh Donaldson of making a racist remark during Saturday’s game and Major League Baseball is looking into the incident.Anderson, one of the sport’s leading Black voices, said Donaldson asked him, “What’s up, Jackie?” — a reference to Jackie Robinson, the Hall of Famer who broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947.“I don’t think it was called for,” Anderson said after New York’s 7-5 win at Yankee Stadium.Donaldson is white and said he did use Robinson’s name but didn’t mean for it to be disrespectful.Donaldson said he has “joked around” with the All-Star shortstop in the past using the same reference and mentioned a 2019 interview in which Anderson told Sports Illustrated: “I kind of feel like today’s Jackie Robinson … because he changed the game, and I feel like I’m getting to a point to where I need to change the game.”“My meaning of that is not any term trying to be racist by any fact of the matter,” Donaldson said.Donaldson and Anderson have scrapped a couple times in the past week.The White Sox and Yankees are scheduled to see each other for the last time in the regular season with a doubleheader.
Chicago White Sox star Tim Anderson has accused Yankees slugger Josh Donaldson of making a racist remark during Saturday’s game and Major League Baseball is looking into the incident.
Anderson, one of the sport’s leading Black voices, said Donaldson asked him, “What’s up, Jackie?” — a reference to Jackie Robinson, the Hall of Famer who broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947.
“I don’t think it was called for,” Anderson said after New York’s 7-5 win at Yankee Stadium.
Donaldson is white and said he did use Robinson’s name but didn’t mean for it to be disrespectful.
Donaldson said he has “joked around” with the All-Star shortstop in the past using the same reference and mentioned a 2019 interview in which Anderson told Sports Illustrated: “I kind of feel like today’s Jackie Robinson … because he changed the game, and I feel like I’m getting to a point to where I need to change the game.”
“My meaning of that is not any term trying to be racist by any fact of the matter,” Donaldson said.
Donaldson and Anderson have scrapped a couple times in the past week.
The White Sox and Yankees are scheduled to see each other for the last time in the regular season with a doubleheader.
