First Openly Gay Pro Baseball Player Makes History, Pitches Shutout

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Sean Conroy pitched a complete game shutout on Thursday night, striking out 11 and allowing just three hits, to lead the Sonoma Stompers to a decisive 7-0 victory over the Vallejo Admirals. He also made history, becoming the first openly gay active professional baseball player.

“He wanted to be that guy, and coming out here and doing this shows you what kind of man he is,” remarked Tim Livingston, the team’s radio broadcaster, as the game came to an end. “To see this little field here in the middle of nowhere, when we look back it will have been the perfect setting for this.”

The Stompers, part of the Pacific Association of Professional Baseball, play in a small 370-seat field in Northern California wine country. When the 23-year-old right-hander was announced with the rest of the starting lineup, Conroy received the loudest cheers. “It’s great they cheered for him,” Nancy Dito, 67 and one of three fans selected to throw out the first pitch, told the Associated Press. “I think it’s courageous and wonderful he’s doing this.”

http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2015/06/26/3674324/first-openly-gay-pro-baseball-player/

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