A Tale for Our Times
13th June 2021
To raise money for the party, parents reached out to local businesses for donations. The Washington Nationals generously responded with a baseball signed by pitcher Patrick Corbin, one the heroes of the Nats’ triumphant post-season in 2019, to be raffled off. One of the parent-organizers posted a picture of the ball on the 2021 Yorktown Senior Class Parents public Facebook page and thanked the Nationals for their generosity.
To any normal person this is a feel-good story. But two parents didn’t see it this way. They objected to accepting the baseball because, they claimed, Corbin is a racist.
What evidence was presented to support this accusation against the pitcher? The fact that he, along with four teammates, once played golf with then-president Donald Trump and posted a picture from the outing on Instagram.