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How to create a culture of acceptance for gay athletes.(In Her Own Words)
Athletics is the last big hurdle to be overcome in the acceptance of diverse sexual orientations in society, said author and motivational speaker Dave Pallone.
Concerned about the extensive homophobia in athletics and its effects on gay athletes, he addressed the NCAA Title IX seminar in San Diego in April.
Pallone speaks from experience. He was a professional baseball umpire for 18 years, including 10 with the National Baseball League, before being forced to choose between his personal and his professional lives. His 1990 best-selling autobiography, Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball, provides a revealing look at the sport through the eyes of ...
- Going Back Behind the Mask? // Former Ump Pallone Wants to Return
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ALAN STEINBERG October 17, 1995 700+ words
Dave Pallone used to cry, "You're out!" for a...petition baseball for reinstatement. Pallone, now 44, left the game in 1988 under...allegations. Baseball claims he retired; Pallone insists he was fired - and for non-job...
- Look who's talking Eight years later, Pallone and Rose hold a chat session
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Jim Greenidge, Globe Staff May 10, 1996 700+ words
...Eight years later, Pete Rose and Dave Pallone finally talked things over. The subject...fined $10,000 for making contact with Pallone while arguing a call at first base during...Mets. With two out in the 10th inning, Pallone called Mookie Wilson of the Mets safe...
- Pallone faces uphill battle
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Jack Craig, Globe Staff September 22, 1996 700+ words
It may take a year for Dave Pallone's slander suit against WEEI to work...Big Show" panelists stated that Pallone was probably the man on stilts who...Katherine Triantafillou, representing Pallone, contends that, in effect, her client...
- Dave Pallone.(Sports Heroes: Baseball)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Ott, Christopher R. August 18, 1998 700+ words
...being gay in major-league baseball Dave Pallone still remembers the date and time his...investigation. The real reason for his firing, Pallone says, was simply his disclosure that...get rid of me," he says. Until then Pallone thought his career in baseball was secure...
- PALLONE-TERROR.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. December 8, 2008 700+ words
PALLONE-TERROR Aid to Pak must be linked to its...itself should go in, Congressman Frank Pallone told a meeting organised by the Indian...do not continue their activities. But Pallone, who is the founder of the Congressional...
- Pallone, 10 others file amicus brief on Bhopal disaster.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. April 5, 2006 700+ words
Pallone, 10 others file amicus brief on Bhopal...Washington, Apr 5 (PTI) US Democrat Frank Pallone and ten other Congress lawmakers have filed...Carbide chemical disaster at Bhopal in 1984. Pallone, the founder of the Congressional Caucus...
- EX-UMPIRE PALLONE FACES SEX-RING PROBE
- Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) September 23, 1988 700+ words
...N.Y. - National League umpire Dave Pallone, under scrutiny for alleged involvement...Jones Jr. said Thursday. Jones said Pallone was at Thursday's meeting to allow investigators...allegations. No charges have been filed against Pallone, Jones said, adding "the lines of communication...
- REP. PALLONE QUESTIONS FLU VACCINE DISTRIBUTION
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News November 6, 2009 700+ words
...WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -- Rep. Frank G. Pallone, D-N.J. (6th CD), issued the...Wall Street firms, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. on Thursday announced that he will...distribution process at a congressional hearing. Pallone will hold a hearing of the House Energy...
