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Brewers' Denson announces retirement

Milwaukee infielder was affiliated baseball's lone openly gay player
March 21, 2017

David Denson left his mark on baseball, but on Monday, he said it was time to move on.The Brewers' Minor League first baseman said he is retiring from baseball to pursue a career as a personal trainer less than two years after becoming the only openly gay player in affiliated

Report: Brewers prospect Denson comes out

2013 15th-round pick becomes first openly gay Minor League player
August 16, 2015

While David Denson was busy playing in a doubleheader for Rookie-level Helena on Saturday night in Idaho Falls, his words in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel were making history. The Brewers prospect told the newspaper he's gay, becoming the first Minor or Major League Baseball player to publicly do so while