Nike Removes 'Boston Massacre' T-Shirt

     On April 22, 2013, Meredith Bennett-Smith wrote the article, "Nike Pulls 'Boston Massacre' T-Shirts After Marathon Bombings" in The Huffington Post. A baseball-themed T-shirt from the Nike company was removed after being considered insensitive after the Boston bombings. The T-shirt said
"Boston Massacre" with blood spilled on it to represent the "Boston Massacre", to commemorate two the series sweeps in 1978 and 2006, when the New York Yankees swept the Boston Red Sox. This became known as the first and second "Boston massacres" to fans of the rival teams. Producer of "Late Show by David Letterman", Eric Stangel, was the one who pointed out the offending T-shirt this weekend. The producer tweeted a picture of the shirt, and said that employees told him they had started to take the shirts down. In a statement emailed to The Huffington Post, a Nike spokeswoman said the company was aware of the issue. "The shirts being referenced are older baseball shirts that were predominantly being sold through our Factory Stores Outlets," the representative wrote. "In light of the tragedy in Boston we took immediate action last week to remove this product from distribution. We conducted this process as quickly as possible and are confident the product has been removed from distribution." The T-shirt might become a collector's item now that it is no longer in stores.