How many openly gay baseball players in the MLB
2007-04-24 13:25:22 · 10 answers · asked by axeps2 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Billy Bean
William Daro "Billy" Bean (born May 11, 1964 in Santa Ana, California) is a former Major League Baseball player who made news in 1999 when he made his homosexuality public.
Bean was an outfielder with 487 at bats with a .226 batting average in a career that lasted from 1987 through 1995: Detroit Tigers 1987-89, Los Angeles Dodgers 1989, San Diego Padres 1993-95. Bean joined the Detroit Tigers in 1987 tying an MLB record with four hits in his first major league game.
After acknowledging that he is gay, Bean went on to write a book, "Going the Other Way: Lessons from a life in and out of Major League Baseball".
Bean is only the second former major league player to reveal his homosexuality; the late Los Angeles Dodger and Oakland Athletic Glenn Burke is the only other ex-player to have acknowledged his homosexuality.
He is also a current panelist on GSN's I've Got A Secret revival, and a board member of the Gay and Lesbian Athletics Foundation.
2007-04-24 13:31:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not aware of any current MLB players who are out, but Billy Bean and Glenn Burke both came out after their careers. Glenn Burke died from AIDS in 1995.
2007-04-24 13:37:27 · answer #2 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Currently there are none, although Billy Bean & Glenn Burke both came out after retiring from baseball.
2007-04-24 13:33:26 · answer #3 · answered by χριστοφορος ▽ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None at the time due to the incredibly homophobic tone in professional sports. There are suspected gay players, but nothing confirmed
2007-04-24 16:02:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
shown? How does one coach one in all these element? additionally, why might every physique care? Bean and the previous due Burke stay the only 2 former gamers who've proclaimed themselves such. uncomplicated possibility says there would desire to have been greater. yet so what?
2016-12-10 10:35:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Am sure there some there in the locker room but because of stigma of gay jocks the are hidden in the closet.
2007-04-24 21:59:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2014-08-04 06:21:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
most people here in los angeles know that the hall of gamer, los angeles dodger, sandy koufax, is gay. no big deal, he's been in the closet over 50 years.
2014-01-08 12:48:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a few i'm sure. not openly gay to the public, but among each other i'm sure.
2007-04-24 13:31:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
none
2007-04-24 13:28:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋