Baseball's First Openly Gay Major Leaguer Is an Umpire

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Retired umpire Dale Stt, who will throw the ceremonial first pch, announced he was gay 2014, beg first openly gay umpire MLB

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THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UMPIRE REFLECTS ON G OUT, COORS FIELD AND THE ‘ROBO-UMPIRE’

In 2014, Dale Stt beme the first active Major League Baseball umpire to e out as gay. He’s sce retired after umpirg for 32 years the majors. * openly gay umpire *

In 2014, Dale Stt beme the first active Major League Baseball umpire to e out as gay.

Stt was ducted to the Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame 2015 and has sce wrten a memoir about his reer.

On the rponse he’s gotten om the gay muny after umpirg the majors for more than three s and penng a memoir “The Umpire is Out: Callg the Game and Livg My Te Self”: SCOTT: The people I’ve talked to on this book tour, tellg me my story changed their life, my story gave them the urage to do this, or … this one lbian uple San Francis, she was, I gave her a big hug bee she said, “You don’t know how much hearg about you a game I love …” and that kd of stuff. And you were gay and you were out! But you know gays, we love to make an ex (lghs).

DALE STT’S TOBGRAPHY AS AN OPENLY GAY MLB UMPIRE IS A WNER

In reuntg how he me out as gay while still an active MLB umpire, Dale Stt is easy to root for. * openly gay umpire *

“The Umpire is Out” is many thgs: a retrospective of a 33-year major league reer, a reposory of numerable personal triumphs and on-field clash, and a unique perspective of what ’s like to e out as gay while still active Major League Baseball. But jt as importantly, that se is jt as big the very next chapter when Stt reunts walkg to a Portland gay bar jt after movg out of his parents’ hoe and beg smten on first sight wh the man who would eventually bee his hband. The narrativ of Stt’s reer as a big league umpire and his life as a gay man keepg a secret om his workplace n parallel throughout the book.

MLB UMPIRE DALE STT RETIR, SAYS G OUT AS GAY UNBURNED HIM

Stt me out as openly gay 2014 and had 30-year-reer. * openly gay umpire *

For example, Stt vot a chapter to his profsnal stggl durg his sophomore MLB season and how they shook his nfince to the re.

OPENLY GAY MLB UMPIRE, DALE STT, ANNOUNC RELEASE OF AUTOBGRAPHY

Major League Baseball don't currently have an openly-gay player, but begng April, there will be an umpire. Dale Stt, a 29-year veteran who has lled gam durg three World Seri and three All-Star Gam, disclosed an terview published Tuday on Outsports that he married his longtime pann, Michael Rsch, over a year ago."I am extremely grateful that Major League Baseball has always judged me on my work and nothg else." * openly gay umpire *

His tale of meetg wh a 17-year-old closeted umpire and spirg him to e out is so upliftg, feels straight out of a gay WP Ksella novel.

Stt’s gracns at realizg he had bee an advertent role mol for gay sports fans and officials everywhere is so genue, mak you want to reply wh a hug emoji at the end of the chapter. Jt a few months earlier December 2014, a story on Outsports, Stt had discsed for the first time beg an openly gay umpire, the first the sport’s history. "I didn't really thk about this or expect this, ” Stt told Outsports this week, “but when I walked onto the field for the first time sprg trag and throughout the season [as an openly gay man], there were tim when I thought there was a burn lifted off of my shoulrs and that I'm totally a ee man now.

He is leavg wh no regrets and is pecially glad that he cid to e out publicly as gay before retirg. His boss at MLB and fellow umpir knew he was gay for years and never negatively affected his reer. But by gog public, he was able to spire others, both and out of baseball, who never would have known that MLB had a gay umpire and that was a non-issue.

DALE STT, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MLB UMPIRE AND PALM SPRGS RINT, RETIR AFTER NCSN SRE

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One person who reached out was an assistant traer for an MLB team who is gay but not out to his team.

“I don't thk the first thg fans are thkg is that's the gay guy that ma that ll. Any mentns the media of him beg gay were always ntext.

"Bob Costas mentned was Pri night and mentned nonchalantly, 'Oh by the way, the home plate umpire is Dale Stt, a veteran umpire who me out as gay December.

BASEBALL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAJOR LEAGUER IS AN UMPIRE

Billy Bean, a former player who is gay, was named the league’s first Ambassador for Incln and was given greater rponsibili this season.

“Before, if 40, 000 fans would have Googled me and found out I was the gay guy, that would have horrified me, ” he said. ” No, this isn’t a grand g out party, ’s the name of openly gay MLB umpire Dale Stt’s new tobgraphy that is set for release May 2022.

UMPIRE DALE STT SAYS HE'S GAY

The book will clu a foreword by Billy Bean, a lleague and former MLB player who is also openly gay.

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