Burke, Glenn

LC control no.	no 96037417
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Burke, Glenn *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Burke, Glenn (Baseball player)
Other standard no.	0000000043193886 24194305 Q347823
Associated country	United States
Associated place	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Birth date	1952-11-16
Death date	1995-05-30
Place of birth	Oakland (Calif.)
Place of death	San Leandro (Calif.)
Field of activity	Baseball
Affiliation	Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team) Oakland Athletics (Baseball team)
Profession or occupation	Baseball players
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Found in	Out at home, c1995: t.p. (Glenn Burke) Gay & lesbian biography, 1997: p. 94 (Glenn Burke, 1952-1995; African-American baseball player) p. 95 (died of AIDS complications, June, 1995) New York times, 3 June 2022: in an article entitled, "The Dodgers offer a belated embrace to a player shunned for being gay" on page B7 (Glenn Burke made his debut with the Dodgers in 1976; only seven months later, the Dodgers shipped him to Oakland -- it was a baffling mid-May deal that didn't add up unless you knew about Burke's personal life; traded by the Dodgers, shunned by the Oakland Athletics and, eventually ostracized from baseball [Burke] wound up lost, alone and alienated) Wikipedia, 11 June 2022 (Glenn Lawrence Burke, born November 16, 1952 in Oakland, Calif., died May 30, 1995 in San Leandro, Calif., aged 42; a Major League Baseball (MLB) player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics from 1976 to 1979; Burke was the first MLB player to come out as gay to teammates and team owners during his professional career and the first to publicly acknowledge it) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Burke>
Associated language	eng