Curtis Granderson is used to being booed. He's a New York Yankee. It comes with the territory, and he hardly notices it anymore. But sometimes, there are jeers that cause him to raise an eyebrow.

Tuesday, for instance, when the players were paraded through the streets of Kansas City in trucks for baseball's "All-Star Game Red Carpet Show," Granderson noticed that every team's players were cheered—except one. When the individual trucks carrying Granderson and fellow Yankees Derek Jeter, CC Sabathia and Robinson Cano drove by,...