NBA's Collins throws first pitch at Fenway (Park)
BOSTON -- Jason Collins, who recently took the historic step of being the first openly male gay active professional athlete in any of the four major American sports, threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park before the Red Sox played the Rangers on Thursday.
Collins wore a Red Sox jersey with his name and No. 98, his basketball jersey number, on the back.
The crowd gave a nice ovation as Collins strode toward the mound. He waved and, from the windup, delivered a strike to Red Sox manager John Farrell, who was stationed behind the plate.
"We respect his courage, we respect his choices," Farrell said. "This is an opportunity to showcase that at the time when this was a possibility of coming out, we had said we were an organization that embraces all. I think this is a very small way of showing that."
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130606&content_id=49817102&vkey=news_bos&c_id=bos
----------------------
And that's how we do things around here!
(Incidentally the "choice" spoken about in the article is the choice to come out, not to suggest that being gay is a choice.)
