How a Major League Baseball umpire came out while still working

Dale Scott, shown in 2017, was an umpire for 30 years. He came out as gay in 2014. (Photo: Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images)

The first time any of my colleagues said anything to me about being gay was during spring training in ’98 or ’99. There was this little bar, Frank’s Friendly Tavern, just on the edge of the Arizona State campus in Tempe. It’s…