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Major League Baseball promotes Billy Bean, hires Curtis Pride for inclusion posts
Billy Bean has been promoted to vice president for social responsibility and inclusion; Curtis Pride has also been added as an ambassador for inclusion.
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Former baseball star Lenny Dykstra: I blackmailed closeted umpires
The former MLB player spent half a million dollars hiring private investigators to dig up dirt on umpires.
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Breanna Sinclairé becomes first trans person to perform National Anthem at MLB Game
It was only the second game Sinclairé ever attended, but the classically trained soprano, who has a 4½-octave range, broke new ground before the Oakland A’s game with the San Diego Padres at the A’s LGBT Pride night.
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Mets’ infielder disagrees with MLB ambassador Billy Bean’s gay ‘lifestyle’
Mets infielder Daniel Murphy says he disagrees with the “lifestyle” of former major leaguer Billy Bean and other people who identify as gay.
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Major League Baseball umpire Dale Scott comes out as gay
Major League Baseball umpire Dale Scott says he is gay, the latest such disclosure in sports.
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NY Yankees manager: MLB would accept an openly gay player
NEW YORK — Yankees manager Joe Girardi says Major League Baseball would accept an openly gay player.
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NY Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard’s apology: Gay slur a Twitter ‘mishap’
Newly acquired New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard issued an apology Tuesday after becoming the latest professional athlete caught for tweeting an anti-gay slur.
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ESPN poll reveals where pro athletes stand on same-sex marriage
Professional hockey players are the most supportive professional athletes on the issue of marriage equality, according to a recently published ESPN poll.
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Newspaper exec, former Pittsburgh Pirates owner comes out as gay
Kevin McClatchy, the former owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates and now the board chairman at the McClatchy Company newspaper chain, has come out as gay.