Glenn Burke: The Secret Everybody Knew

Welcome back to the Gridiron Deep Dive everybody, where today, I’m going to take a detour from the normal football fare, to talk about former MLB Centre Fielder Glenn Burke.If you know why I’ve come to talk about Glenn Burke today, then you know, but please keep that information to yourself for the next little while, not to ruin it for everybody else.Writing this article took a lot out of me. Thank you for being here!There are several disclaimers that I would like to give before we begin, both about the story being told and the storyteller telling it, but in the interest of properly representing Glenn Burke and the man that he was, I’m not going to give you any of them. I’m going to give you the story raw, and everything that you need to know about both myself and Glenn will come out in the course of the piece.Enjoy.Glenn Burke was a pioneer, a man who grew up in the heart of American social change.Glenn was born and raised in the East Bay area of California. The same East Bay area…