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Contents:
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
- STATISTICS SAY THERE ARE DOZENS OF GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYERS
- 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
- A GAY BASEBALL PLAYER, STATISTIL PERSPECTIVE
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
In major league baseball only two players have publicly me out as gay other than that few of mor league players have done so. * percentage of gay baseball players *
Today, as the Los Angel Dodgers prepare to play the World Seri agast the Tampa Bay Rays, -founr Jim Buzski remds that the Dodgers anchise is a part of LGBTQ sports history as havg the only two MLB players who ever were public about beg gay. Dodgers have had Major League Baseball’s only 2 openly gay players.
In the history of Major League Baseball, there have been only two players who have e out as gay: Glenn Burke and Billy Bean. Burke, while never publicly out wh the media while playg, did nothg to hi the fact to his teammat that he was gay. Not a “Hey world, I’m gay” way, but the sense that his teammat knew as did the management of the Los Angel Dodgers, Burke’s first team.
” A memorable moment “Out” occurs when is relled that the Dodgers — tryg to stifle mors that a popular player was gay — offered Burke $75, 000 to get married.
STATISTICS SAY THERE ARE DOZENS OF GAY PRO BASEBALL PLAYERS
The Dodgers and their manager, Tom Lasorda, prented a versn of themselv as a clean-cut, All-Amerin team and a flamboyantly gay player uld not be tolerated, pecially one who hung out wh Lasorda’s gay son. (“Spunky’), himself a gay man and the son of the team’s manager, Tommy Lasorda.
“Spunky” Lasorda later died of AIDS and his father shamefully never acknowledged that his son was gay.
9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
“My son wasn’t gay. His beg gay was known and players were reluctant to shower wh him.
A former Burke teammate Clll Washgton rells that A’s Manager Billy Mart was openly homophobic:. Burke went on to settle San Francis and was a fixture on the gay scene there, even playg the Gay Gam softball.
A GAY BASEBALL PLAYER, STATISTIL PERSPECTIVE
While baseball is still wag for s first openly gay active MLB player, Bean’s elevatn to a posn of thory the missner’s office is a sign that thgs have changed sce the days when Glenn Burke was lled a faggot by his manager. Here's a list of those the profsnal and llege baseball world proud enough to wear a rabow p wh their pstrip and e out as gay. An outfielr for the Los Angel Dodgers and the Oakland A's between 1976 and 1979, Glenn Burke beme the first Major League Baseball player to e out as gay to teammat and owners while still active, though the team asked that he keep his sexualy secret om the public and he plied.