Page 16 "...the New York Yankees were the Liberators of Oppressed..."

From page 16 of the book:  "...His subscriptions to baseball tabloids and the arsenal of baseball encyclopedias filled his bedroom bookshelves to the point of mania.  When he had first met her, he'd told Sarah, self-righteously, that the New York Yankees were the Liberators of Oppressed Peoples Everywhere."