LETTER from SAMANTHA DAVENPORT Mecca ‘Tone-Deaf’ Way To Refer to HoF To the Editor: I am a reader of www.AllOTSEGO.com as well as its weekly newsprint companion. Twice now I have seen reference made to the Baseball Hall of Fame as “Mecca” and/or “the Mecca.” Although I too place great value on the HoF and acknowledge it might be very old tradition to use the word, I think calling it “Mecca” is, frankly, tone-deaf. I am sorry to be so…
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