Yep
Common Ground is still a heck of a read. Talks about how Kevin White almost was McGovern's running mate until Ted Kennedy killed it (McGovern I think asked him and Kennedy said something like "I'm OK with whatever your decision is." McGovern thought that was Kennedy blessing it, until an adviser told him that was Kennedy indicating he wanted something else to happen).
Tying it into baseball, it talks about the Globe, which advocated for the busing program. It was just emerging as the dominant paper in Boston. The opponents of busing tried to organize a boycott, but it was the summer of 1975, the rookie years for Rice and Lynn, so no one wanted to go without reading Gammons's and Ryan's coverage of the team and Montville's columns.
One of the featured families was the liberal elite professional adviser to White, Colin Diver, who I think went on to be dean of BU's law school and I think UPenn as well. Not ironically, Diver ended up moving out of the city to Newton, a liberal inner suburb.
There was a TV movie on Common Ground, which also used some stereotyping. They wanted the busing opponents in Charlestown, an Irish-dominated neighborhood at the time, to look insular and racist, so they posed one of the activists in a Celtics jacket. That of course was BS because the Townies follow the Bruins, not the Celts; if anything, the racists disliked the Celts. It wasn't until the 80s and Bird/Magic that the Celts had a rep as the White team.
