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The Detroit Tiger right fielder expresses reservations but eventual support for a potential gay teammate

Athlete calls his anti-gay tweet a 'little mishap,' Mets take no action

Shooty Babitt says an out athlete would be 'a detriment to the team'

Friday night was restless for Kevin McClatchy. His identity since his early 20s had been in part defined by the closet he hid in. With Saturday’s approaching dawn, that closet door would be flung open with a New York Times column by Frank Bruni in which the former Pittsburgh Pirates owner declared publicly for the […]

Derek Jeter (Photo: Kim Klement-US PRESSWIRE) New York Yankees fans had a shock when they saw a status update on the team's Facebook page Thursday that read: We regret to inform our fans that Derek Jeter will miss the rest of the season with sexual-reassignment surgery. He promises to come back stronger than ever in […]

Does the Washington National outfielder speak from experience?

Major League Baseball and the players’ union will add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy as part of a new labor deal, the New York Daily News is reporting. From Andy Martino: The new collective bargaining agreement adds “sexual orientation” to its section on discrimination, a person with direct knowledge of the agreement told the […]

Billy Bean, Eric Alva Over the past decade, I have watched with bated breath as our community fought to repeal the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy that would finally allow the members of our armed forces who happen to be gay or lesbian to be honest about who they are as they fight courageously for […]

Photo via Sodahead The Boy Scouts of America does not allow gays or lesbians to serve as scouts or scout leaders, saying it "believes that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the obligations in the Scout Oath and Scout Law to be morally straight and clean in thought, word, and deed." Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is […]

Game 6 hero David Freese Update: Game 7 was so blah that it's not worth a separate item. The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Texas Rangers, 6-2, and are the World Series champions. The series, though, basically ended in Game 6. Previous: The headline might seem harsh but there is no other angle to explain […]

The World Series starts Wednesday with a matchup few expected — the Texas Rangers vs. the St. Louis Cardinals. I can’t say this is one to excite the senses. I will be rooting for the Rangers, the first World Series loser to make it back since the 1992 Braves. I can't stand baseball allowing wild […]

The latest video in Outsports’ partnership with the It Gets Better Project™ is from Billy Bean, who played baseball with the Tigers, Dodgers and Padres from 1987-95. Bean is a gay sports pioneer, becoming one of the few pro athletes who publicly came out. I met Billy this weekend and we did a terrific interview […]

The Billys: Bean and Beane Billy Bean and Billy Beane could not be more different. Yet they also have a lot in common. For many people, though, confusion reigns. I got this text a couple of days ago. “Hey Billy, I’m sitting here watching a movie called “Moneyball” with Brad Pitt. Is he you?” Sigh. […]

The Boston Red Sox led the Tampa Bay Rays by nine games on Sept. 4. And last night the lead went poof and the Rays completed the biggest September comeback for a playoff spot in Major League Baseball history. Not far behind were the Atlanta Braves, who blew an 8 1/2 game wild card lead […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Baseball, 1999: A restaurant review in the Miami Herald changed Billy Bean's life. The article, in an oh-by-the-way fashion, mentioned that Bean and his partner in the restaurant were also partners in life. The item caught the attention of the New […]

The New York Mets hosting the team's second "gay night."

Sam Fuld Just a couple weeks ago, baseball's talking heads were repeating the same line: "What a boring September. All the races are over." I guess the Tampa Bay Rays never got that memo. When they woke up on Sept. 3 they were 9.5 games behind the Boston Red Sox for the AL wild card […]

Mike Piazza’s ‘straight’ announcement was the first of its kind.

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Baseball, 1993: By the time former Major League Baseball player Glenn Burke came out publicly in interviews with Sport magazine and the "Today" show, the gay community in San Francisco had long known he was gay. Burke was a fixture in […]

Oliver S. Sullivan, 18, of Hingham, Mass., thought he had pulled off the perfect crime. But he forgot one key detail: Don’t bring your cellphone with you when you’re streaking. From MyFoxBoston: On Monday, August 1, 2011 local police received multiple calls reporting a naked man, with a shirt covering his face, running through Lynch […]