Contents:
- WHY AREN'T THERE MORE GAY BASEBALL PLAYERS?
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
WHY AREN'T THERE MORE GAY BASEBALL PLAYERS?
De Smet did not have a hman baseball team at the time, and he had to ci whether to put his son on the sophomore team or have him play varsy. Is he a Gay? Sophomore pcher Chase Dollanr racked up the postseason honors followg a domant year on the mound, beg the first UT player to be named SEC Pcher of the Year and earn nsens first-team All-Ameri honors sce Le Hochevar 2005.
From his hman to sophomore season, Bentendi improved his battg average by 100 pots and h 19 more home ns. Redshirt sophomor Carson Shaddy and Le Bonfield each h better than. Sophomore Max Scherzer was named the 2005 Big 12 Pcher of the Year after postg a domant 1.
In his 1990 tobgraphy, “Behd the Mask: My Double Life Baseball, ” Dave Pallone, a gay major league umpire who was quietly fired 1988 after mors about his sexual orientatn circulated the baseball world, ntend that there were enough gay major league players to create an All-Star team. Sce then, attus and laws about homosexualy have changed. And is baseball ready for s gay Jackie Robson?
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
“I thk we’re gettg close, ” Billy Bean, the only openly gay former major league player alive today, recently told me. Bean played for the Detro Tigers, Los Angel Dodgers and San Diego Padr for parts of six seasons, hidg his homosexualy om his iends, fans and teammat at great emotnal st.
He me out publicly 1982 an Insi Sports article, “The Double Life of a Gay Dodger. “It’s harr to be gay sports than anywhere else, except maybe print, ” said Burke. A lgerg sta of homophobia.
There is a strong current of fundamentalist Christiany wh baseball, which uld make life unfortable for openly gay players. There are also lgerg strands of explic homophobia.