In major league baseball only two players have publicly me out as gay other than that few of mor league players have done so.
Contents:
- 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY
- 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY
* can you be gay and play baseball *
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? “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.
9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
He me out publicly 1982 an Insi Sports article, “The Double Life of a Gay Dodger.