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Glenn Lawrence Burke (November 16, 1952 – May 30, 1995) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics from 1976 to 1979. He was the first MLB player to come out as gay, announcing it in 1982 after he retired.
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Feb 26, 2021 · After a few national sportswriters discovered Glenn was dying of AIDS and wrote about what had become of the man who invented the high-five and had been the first Major League baseball player to...
Jun 2, 2022 · Lutha Burke Davis, the eldest sister of Glenn Burke, will attend the Dodgers’ Pride Night on Friday along with around 40 family members and friends. It will be her first time in Dodger Stadium.
Mar 16, 2021 · Major league baseball is still not ready for Glenn Burke, but the time may be right for Maraniss’s deft biography. Burke, who went to Berkeley High, played for the Oakland A’s and the Dodgers, who offered him $75,000 to marry a woman.
May 21, 2021 · It was into this landscape that Glenn Burke entered the sport of professional baseball in the 1970s. Along with being the first openly gay man to have played in the MLB — he came out in 1982, after leaving the league — Burke and his teammate Dusty Baker are often credited with inventing the high five.
Jul 15, 2014 · EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Glenn Burke was 27 when he walked out on Major League Baseball, his promising career as an outfielder undone mostly by the burden of being a semicloseted gay man. It was...
