1994, the Oakland Athletics organization helped to support him financially. In interviews given while he was fighting AIDS, he expressed little in the way of grudges, and only one big regret – that he never had the opportunity to pursue a second professional sports career in basketball. In 1999, Major League Baseball player Bill Bean revealed his homosexuality, only the second Major League player to do so. Unlike Burke, who came out to teammates while he was still an active player, Bean revealed himself four years after his retirement in 1995, the year Burke died. On August 2, 2013, Burke was among the first class of inductees into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame. In July 2014, Major League Baseball announced plans to honor Burke at the 2014 All-Star Game, doing so as part of a pregame press conference on July 15, 2014. The Fox broadcast in the United States did not mention Burke. On June 17, 2015, the Oakland Athletics honored Burke as part of Athletics Pride Night. Burke's brother, Sydney, threw the ceremonial first pitch at the game. On June 4, 2021, the Athletics renamed their annual Pride Night in Burke's honor, with the first rechristened Glenn Burke Pride Night to be held a week later on June 11. Burke was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2015. References Further information Out. The Glenn Burke Story. 2010 documentary film, produced by Doug Harris, Sean Madison. 1 hour. Jennifer Frey, "A Boy of Summer's Long, Chilly Winter; Once a Promising Ballplayer, Glenn Burke Is Dying of AIDS", New York Times, October 18, 1994. External links Episode of Radiolab discussing Glenn Burke (in the third segment) 1952 births 1995 deaths African-American baseball players AIDS-related deaths in California Albuquerque Dukes players Bakersfield Dodgers players Baseball players from Berkeley, California Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) alumni Burials at Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California) Daytona Beach Dodgers players Gay sportsmen LGBT African Americans LGBT people from California American LGBT sportspeople LGBT baseball players Los Angeles Dodgers players Major League Baseball outfielders Oakland Athletics players Ogden A's players Ogden Dodgers players Spokane Indians players Baseball players from Oakland, California Waterbury Dodgers players 20th-century African-American sportspeople 20th-century LGBT people