After a Brewers minor league player, David Denson, became the first active player with a major-league affiliated team to publicly come out as gay, Astros manager A.J. Hinch on Sunday morning noted how baseball can’t think of itself in a bubble separate from society.
“I don’t think baseball has a choice,” Hinch said when asked if baseball was ready to embrace openly gay players. “When social topics are out there and it involves within your own sport, you have to adjust to it and be ready for it. As we’ve seen over various sports and sort of cultural diversity, we all come from different backgrounds, different upbringings, different likes, dislikes, different lifestyles. It’s a way of the…
