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| Glenn Lawrence Burke (November 16, 1952 (Oakland, California) -May 30, 1995) was a Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics from 1976 to 1979. Burke was one of the first openly admitted homosexual ball players (also see Billy Bean). He died from AIDS in 1995. He is recognized as the player who invented the High Five. Glenn was also an accomplished high school basketball star, leading the Berkeley High School, California "Yellow Jackets" to an undefeated season and the 1970 Northern California championships. He was voted to the Tournament of Champions (TOC) and received a Northern California MVP award. Burke has 523 at-bats over his four seasons in the big leagues and had a career batting average of .237. [ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Glenn Burke ] Some related entries: Bill Caudill | Buck Weaver | Adam Jones | Nick Scoville | Al Davis | Roy Smalley | Ed Carpenter | John Shoop | Cheryl Van Kuren | Chris Soule | Mike Hettinga This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Glenn Burke; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL. | Searches on eBay |
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