(Ted’s) focus was on hitting a baseball, not questions of ethnicity.

In the era Ted first joined organized baseball, there was, as Ted noted in his autobiography, a great deal of prejudice against Mexicans,

Once they start the game my focus is on baseball. But the moment I left the clubhouse and the moment I came back, I'm looking at the Weather Channel or CNN, looking at the hurricane. Obviously, a lot of guys on the team have family there. There's a great deal of concern because it's a very powerful storm.

Once they start the game my focus is on baseball,

I don't think it's really a pressing issue. I think all of our focus has been on playing better baseball and winning more games.

the MLB promotion undercuts this recognition.