Opinion | Keep identity politics out of baseball

I realize people are addicted to identity politics and the media is addicted to feeding people’s addictions, but Kevin B. Blackistone’s Oct. 29 Sports column ranting against the Atlanta Braves, “Houston mistreated the game; Atlanta mistreats people. Go Astros.,” was as boringly one-sided as the old Westerns that just used American Indians as action boogeymen. Amazingly, this was demonstrated in the Oct. 29 Sports article “Tides shift, ‘chop’ stays,” which saw fit to give the leader of the prominent Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Richard Sneed, a chance to explain why he and his people are fine with “Braves” and the tomahawk chop. Not only that — they learned that Mr. Sneed “bristles at outsiders who are ‘offended on our behalf.’ ”