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How much longer will major league baseball stay in the closet?

  • Written by Peter Dreier, E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College
How much longer will major league baseball stay in the closet?While the league has taken steps to make baseball more welcoming for LGBTQ employees and fans, no active player has come out.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

In his 1990 autobiography, “Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball,” Dave Pallone, a gay major league umpire who was quietly fired in 1988 after rumors about his sexual orientation...

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