Major League Baseball gets in the pink

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I didn’t know quite what to make of it yesterday when I saw New York Mets manager Willie Randolph sporting pink sweatbands. Doesn’t everyone know that orange (one of the Mets’ colors) and pink together is a sartorial no-no? And pink? On a major-league manager? Had Randolph gone soft? As you may have read by now, the dash of pink was part of a Mother’s Day breast cancer awareness campaign that also included pink Lousville Slugger bats, which a surprising number of ball players actually

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