This week, Shawn Anderson and Lou Olsen are joined by Andrew Maraniss.
The author of the upcoming Glenn Burke biography “Singled Out” talks at length to the boys about why he chose to write about Major League Baseball’s first openly gay player (and inventor of the high five), whether or not his story would make a good movie and, yeah, walks right into a return of #FredKilledRube.
(Download The Hall of Very Good Podcast over on iTunes)
SHOW NOTES:
How Gay Baseball Player Glenn Burke Made Bryant Gumbel Nervous
Baseball Has an Amazing Gay History. It’s Time to Recognize It.
One of the last photos of Glenn Burke alive.
Actually, Jason Collins Isn’t the First Openly Gay Man in a Major Pro Sport
ANDREW’S BOOKS
- Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke
- Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
- Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
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