This season, the Yankees replaced Kate Smith's recorded rendition, one they had used for 18 years, with other versions of the song.
CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMOREThe strains of Kate Smith's version of "God Bless America" no longer echo throughout Yankee Stadium during the seventh-inning stretch because of hints of racism in the late singer's past.
Smith, who died in 1986, is best known in the sports world as a good-luck charm for the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers -- as her singing of "God Bless America" before games frequently coincided with Flyers victories. However, Smith had a controversial top-20 hit in 1931 titled "That's Why Darkies Were Born" and endorsed the Mammy Doll in 1939, which the Daily News says was based on a racist caricature of a black woman.
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