Still, Denson is not the first person to be openly gay while playing professional baseball. Glenn Burke may never have sat down for a talk with his fellow players, and his magazine profile ...

Nearly forty years ago, Glenn Burke made the momentous decision to come out publicly as gay — making him the first Major League Baseball player to do so. “It came to the point where I was ...

At Pride Night, Los Angeles will celebrate the life of Glenn Burke, M.L.B.’s first openly ... They describe him as a player who could beat you on the baseball field and school you on the ...

You could say that Glenn Burke, the first Major League Baseball player to come out, is having a good season. In March, bestselling author Andrew Maraniss published a thoughtful biography ...

You could say that Glenn Burke, the first Major League Baseball player to come out, is having a good season. In March, bestselling author Andrew Maraniss published a new biography called "Singled Out: ...

“Baseball, basketball, it didn’t matter. He was a late bloomer and I always thought of Glenn as a man’s man. He was the kind of young man most men desire to be.” As a teenager, Burke was ...

"That's why they traded Glenn." At that time the A's were baseball purgatory and Burke struggled. Billy Martin bated him with anti-gay slurs. Much of the clubhouse shunned him. "The tension in the ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with author Andrew Maraniss about homophobia in Major League Baseball's history after some members of the Tampa Bay Rays refused to wear Pride jerseys. Over the weekend ...

Glenn Burke, still accepted around sports ... there was no place for a gay man in professional baseball. Burke then took the celebrity that he did have and played it up, spending a majority ...