William B. Gould IV, Stanford Law School professor emeritus and former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, became a Red Sox fan in 1946 at age 10.

It was a year before Jackie Robinson arrived in the big leagues and 13 years before the Red Sox became the last team to integrate.

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Saddened when hearing about the Adam Jones incident at Fenway Park on Monday, Gould sent a letter to Dave Dombrowski, president of the Red Sox, and cc’d Commissioner Rob Manfred, saying the Red Sox and Major League Baseball “need to think seriously about more serious sanctions for those who engage in racist misconduct at any ballpark.”

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Gould wrote that he’s “concerned and angered by what happened” to Jones, the Orioles’ outfielder who said that a racial epithet was directed at him a handful of times and that a bag of peanuts was thrown at him.

Gould cited a 2005 incident at Fenway in which beer was dumped on Gary Sheffield by a fan who was banned by the Red Sox the rest of the season. That fan deserved a greater penalty, and so would any fan directing racial slurs at players.