At the beginning of a game, the Oakland A’s announcer attempted to make a reference to the Negro League Baseball Museum, but the words came out in a bit of a derogatory word salad when the announcer appeared to say the “N-word” by mistake.
The Oakland A’s baseball team announcer made quite the public gaffe Friday night.
At the beginning of a game against the Kansas City Royals, Glen Kuiper attempted to make a reference to the Negro League Baseball Museum—the museum dedicated to Black players before the major league was integrated, but the words came out in a bit of a derogatory word salad when the announcer appeared to say the “N-word” by mistake. Later in the game, Kuiper apologized and claimed his statement “didn’t come out quite the way I wanted it to.
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