Baseball as a First Love on the Way to Gay Self-Love
When the calendar turns to September, there is a bit of a melancholy feeling for baseball fans. It's the last month of the regular season, which means the 162-game schedule that started in April in winding down, No matter how old you get, if you love the game of baseball, the approach of fall can make you feel like a jilted lover.My earliest memory as a child is the tap on the head I received from Pittsburgh Pirates great Roberto Clemente when I was around 5 years old.
I can still feel his hand on my head.And my earliest recollection of crying is when he died tragically on December 31, 1972.
Clemente was and is one of my idols.It’s hard to quantify the addicting love of baseball for an obsessed fan like me,over a lifetime.
I grew up in Pittsburgh and haven’t lived there since 1987. Yet I’m still a Pirates fan.I take great pride in the fact that one of my closest friends from college has been the public address announcer for the Pirates for the last 35 years.
