Contents:
- EXCLIVE: ASTROS’ GEE SPRGER PUNISHED BY MLB FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR DIRECTED AT UMPIRE
- DTY BAKER’S SUPPORT OF GAY BASEBALL PLAYERS GO BACK TO GLENN BURKE
- DODGERS HAVE HAD MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL’S ONLY 2 OPENLY GAY PLAYERS
EXCLIVE: ASTROS’ GEE SPRGER PUNISHED BY MLB FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR DIRECTED AT UMPIRE
The Astros held their only prev Pri night July 2010 and sold 1, 000 tickets to the event that was unrstated for such a promotn (the cy’s mayor at the time, Annise Parker, was openly gay, and yet she threw out the send pch. Their opponents on Wednday, the Rangers, also play a gay-supportive market Dallas-Fort Worth, yet the team’s distctn as beg the only MLB team to never hold an official Pri night stands out more as each year pass. Intertgly, when baseball wrer Alex Plck, who vers the Rangers, me out as gay a year ago, he was most worried about the team’s reactn and was pleasantly surprised, he wrote an say for Outsports.
DTY BAKER’S SUPPORT OF GAY BASEBALL PLAYERS GO BACK TO GLENN BURKE
I got some relativ that are gay. ” The anti-gay slur rulted an unspecified punishment, the office of the missner told Outsports, rponse to our quiry.
And so ends yet another episo of anti-gay slurs major league baseball.
Although Baker didn’t know Burke was gay at first, he gradually began to put together the piec throughout the season. In a 2018 terview wh The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal, he exprsed empathy for closeted gay players followg the revelatn of homophobic tweets om Josh Har and Trea Turner:.
DODGERS HAVE HAD MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL’S ONLY 2 OPENLY GAY PLAYERS
There are some gay guys baseball. Later the terview, Baker mentned “gays and lbians kissg on the Jumboton” as an aspect of sports culture that “giv me hope.