Whatever. When is Babe Ruth Day? Mickey Mantle?
Orphans and Oklahomans were never barred, as a class, from playing major league baseball.
If this was a guilt-inducing event it would come across far differently. Instead it's a celebration of a man who handled enormous pressure with dignity and let his play do the talking. And, in a commissioner career filled with mistakes, it's one of the things that Bud Selig has gotten right.