This week, Shawn Anderson and Lou Olsen talk with New York Times best-selling author Erik Sherman about the life and times of Glenn Burke, Major League Baseball’s first and only openly gay player, and their book Out at Home.
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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
MLB to Recognize Glenn Burke as Baseball’s Gay Pioneer
ERIK’S BOOKS:
- Out at Home: The True Story of Glenn Burke, Baseball’s First Openly Gay Player
- A Pirate for Life
- Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the ’86 Mets
- Kings of Queens: Life Beyond Baseball with ’86 Mets
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