A Major League Baseball catcher claimed earlier this week that a waiter in his Alabama hometown of Huntsville refused him service, after recognizing him as the player who knelt during the national anthem last month.
That player was Bruce Maxwell, who made his MLB debut back in 2016 and plays for the Oakland Athletics. On Sept. 23, Maxwell became the first, and only MLB player as of writing to kneel during the national anthem. The son of a U.S. Army veteran, Maxwell had previously said that kneeling was to raise awareness on the “racial divide that is being practiced from the highest power” Fox News reported.
