First gay baseball player

Glenn Lawrence Burke (November 16, – May 30, ) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics from to He was the first MLB player to come out as gay, announcing it in after he retired. [1].

On June 25, , Sean Conroy, a pitcher for the minor league Sonoma Stompers in California, made history by becoming the first openly gay active professional baseball player.