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Of course, this isn't unique to baseball. About half a dozen teammates gave him a rousing ovation, invited him to a table and asked him to provide details on the woman with whom he'd spent the night. He was wearing the same clothes from the previous night. Late last season, before a Sunday day game, a veteran rolled into a road clubhouse about an hour before the game. He spent six months in a clubhouse that resembled then the same testosterone den it does today.
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Glenn Burke, after all, was out to his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates for years, and that was almost 40 years ago. Such progressiveness would seem to translate rather easily. Its diversity is one of its great hallmarks. There is great power in that, and no sport – no culture – can deny its inevitability.īaseball is America's game, and it remains more reflective of modern-day America among its players than any sport. Collins inspired Sam and Gordon, and each of them will inspire more, and baseball players everywhere will look at the first out major leaguer and feel a sense of understanding, of pride, of confidence that whatever problems he encounters, someone who has gone through the same sorts of things made it to the apex. What once seemed like an unburdening now has turned into a cause, the sort behind which anyone could stand. This is not to say a Latin American player will break the boundary in baseball as much as it is to remind ourselves that fears and assumptions often die in the face of evolution.Īs for the sport itself, and how it judges itself internally, one would hope the revelation of sexuality isn't seen as something to draw attention. And yet the same was said about black culture in football and basketball, and look at what happened: The three highest-profile male athletes to out themselves all are black. Inside the small circle of people whose quest to demystify sexuality in sports helped this last year turn into such a success, the question of Latin America has come up as a potential boundary. Divulging sexuality, it turns out, is the furthest thing from selfish it is an incredibly selfless act, taking on the attention and questions so that not only are others in the future spared but they realize their anxieties aren't warranted.Īll of the concerns about 162 showers would disappear quickly amid a truth that only the willfully ignorant would ignore: Baseball is a microcosm of society, and American society, minus those who prefer to hold sacrosanct one passage of an old book over another, recognizes that blocking a person's pathway to wholeness and happiness may be the greatest sin of all. The momentum is so strong, the support so great and, best of all, the inspiration from Collins and Sam and Gordon so palpable. Players say so, managers say so, executives say so. Ignore the campaign to snuff out anyone who brings excessive attention to himself because it goes against the sport's long-held code.īaseball is ready, just as basketball and football were. Never mind the predominance of players who come from traditionally homophobic Latin American countries.
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Forget the heteronormative baseball clubhouse. That the two dozen or so ballplayers to whom I've posed the question – "Would you be OK with a gay teammate?" – have given some variety of the same answer: As long as he can play.Īnd that is why the day for baseball is soon coming as it has for the NBA, college basketball, college football and, wherever Sam lands, the NFL. What a great affirmation that these fears were drowned out by not just tolerance, as if who someone loves is something to tolerate, but welcome.