Glenn Burke

Quick Facts

Full Name	Glenn Burke
Occupation	Baseball Player
Date Of Birth	Nov 16, 1952(1952-11-16)
Age	72
Date Of Death	May 30, 1995, San Leandro, CA
Birthplace	Oakland
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Scorpio

Glenn Burke Biography

Glenn Burke is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on November 16, 1952 in Oakland, California, United States.

Burke was an accomplished high school basketball star, leading the Berkeley High School, California, Yellow Jackets to an undefeated season and the 1970 Northern California championships. Burke could dunk a basketball with both hands, a rare feat for anyone under 6″0 tall. He was voted onto the all- tournament team at the Tournament of Champions (TOC) and received a Northern California MVP award. Burke was named Northern California’s High School Basketball Player of the Year in 1970.

On October 2, 1977, Burke ran onto the field to congratulate his Dodgers teammate Dusty Baker after Baker hit his 30th home run in the last game of the regular season. Burke raised his hand over his head as Baker jogged home from third base. Not knowing what to do about the upraised hand, Baker slapped it. They have been credited with inventing the high five, an event detailed in the ESPN 30 for 30 film The High Five directed by Michael Jacobs. The high five is now widely ubiquitous. After retiring from baseball, Burke used the high five with other LGBTQ residents of the Castro district of San Francisco, where it became a symbol of gay pride and identification.

Glenn Burke Net Worth

Glenn Burke is one of the richest Baseball Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Glenn Burke 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Glenn Lawrence Burke (November 16, 1952 – May 30, 1995) was a Major League Baseball (MLB) player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics from 1976 to 1979. He was the first MLB player to come out as gay to teammates and team owners during his professional career and the first to publicly acknowledge it, stating, “They can’t ever say now that a gay man can’t play in the majors, because I’m a gay man and I made it.” In October 1977, Burke ran onto the field to congratulate his Dodgers teammate Dusty Baker after Baker hit his 30th home run; Burke raised his hand over his head and Baker slapped it. They are widely credited with inventing the high five.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Glenn Burke Dating?

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An article published in Inside Sports magazine in 1982 made Burke’s homosexuality public knowledge. Although he remained active in amateur competitions, Burke turned to drugs to fill the void in his life when his career ended. An addiction to cocaine destroyed him both physically and financially. In 1987, his leg and foot were crushed when he was hit by a car in San Francisco. After the accident, his life went into physical and financial decline. He was arrested and jailed for drugs and lived on the streets of San Francisco for a number of years, often in the same neighborhood that once embraced him. He spent his final months with his sister in Oakland. He died May 30, 1995, of AIDS complications at Fairmont Hospital in San Leandro, California, at age 42. He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.

Facts & Trivia

Roland Ranked on the list of most popular Baseball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Glenn Burke celebrates birthday on November 16 of every year.

He died from AIDS-related causes in 1995. In August 2013, Burke was among the first class of inductees into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame. Burke was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary’s Shrine of the Eternals in 2015.

Why Did Glenn Burke quit baseball?

He wrote in his autobiography that “prejudice just won out.” Burke left professional sports at the age of 27. He told People magazine in 1994 that his “mission as a gay ballplayer was to break a stereotype ” and that he thought “it worked”.

Who invented high 5?

In short, Lamont Sleets was both the inventor of the high five and its Johnny Appleseed. The low five had been a fixture of African-American culture since at least World War II.

Is Glenn Burke alive?

May 30, 1995

Where is Glenn Burke buried?

Piedmont Funeral Services and Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA

How was the high five invented?

Louisville Cardinals Forward Wiley Brown went to give a low five to his teammate Derek Smith, but suddenly Smith looked Brown in the eye and said, “No. Up high.” Brown thought, “Yeah, why are we staying down low? We jump so high,” raised his hand and the high five was supposedly born.