Asked about a T-shirt with a racist anti-China message that the Baltimore Blast soccer team offered for sale, a company official today attributed the offense not to an underling but to the team’s owner, Edwin F. Hale, Sr.

“It was done in March by the owner as a tongue-in-cheek thing he created,” said Gianni Tumminello, vice president of soccer operations and general manager.

Tumminello said Hale added the shirt to the merchandise available for purchase on the team’s website when the coronavirus pandemic struck in the spring.

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