WASHINGTON -- At age 21, after pitching most of this season for Mississippi in the obscurity of the Class AA Southern League, rookie Randall Delgado figured he'd be a month into his offseason vacation this week.
Some 20 slabs of sheetrock, weighing roughly 800 pounds, were leaning against the kitchen wall of the house where Craig Kimbrel, then 18, and his dad, an electrician by trade, were running some wires.
Suddenly, with a diverse sampler of incidents, the subject of homosexuality in sport has again moved back to the forefront. Invariably, too, this brings up the question: When will the first gay male American athlete in a prominent professional team sport step forward and declare his sexuality?
One of these days, such headlines will seem to be from a time capsule, as archaic as images of young African-Americans being fire-hosed or attacked by German shepherds.
© 2013 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
|