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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=420137" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Out at Home</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=420137" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Jackie Robinson is exalted<br>as the first Black man to play, <br>but far fewer fans remember Glenn Burke, <br>the first ballplayer openly gay.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=420137" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Like Jackie, he played for the Dodgers-<br>(different coast and a different time.) <br>Glenn came up to the Majors<br>In the summer of 79'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=420137" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Burke was strong and tall and fast<br>And some teammates called him " King Kong"<br>Though he roomed with Reggie Smith on the road<br>most nights Reggie Smith slept alone.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=420137" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Burke befriended Young Tommy Lasorda<br>which was why he was traded away.<br>Old Lasorda couldn't deal with the rumors, <br>Nor acknowledge his own son was gay.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=420137" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Glenn Burke rode the pines while in Oakland<br>Billy Martin never gave him much chance<br>When Burke injured his leg in Spring Training<br>That ended his time at the dance.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=420137" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He drifted, his playing days over, <br>He used, he stole and did time.<br>An accident left him a cripple<br>Unprotected sex ended his line.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=420137" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">No shock was the A.I.D.s diagnosis-<br>His sister had long known he was gay.<br>When she took him in he was dying<br>when all others turned him away.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=420137" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Sandy Alderson, with the Athletics, <br>took pity on Burke in despair.<br>The team paid for his A.I.D.S. medication<br>and covered the cost of his care.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=420137" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Sad is the fate of the Athlete unsung, <br>dying apart from his team.<br>Glenn Burke showed that a gay man could play, <br>That a Gay Athlete also can dream.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=420137" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Glenn Burke passed a long time ago<br>But his story deserves to be told.<br>He said when your suffering, dying of A.I.D.S.<br>Even days in the summer are cold.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a></strong></div>

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