A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner

Burke was a once-well-known major league player who. Baseball enthusiast Silas Wade opens the book by giving a colorful class presentation about Glenn Burke. A new book by my friend, Phil Bildner, that even though it definitely was about baseball and I still. A gay black baseball player posthumously inspires a sixth grade white boy who is ready-ish to come out. A High Five for Glenn Burke A heartfelt and relatable novel from Phil Bildner, weaving the real history of Los Angeles Dodger and Oakland Athletic Glenn. So I packed a book for my flight tonight, after all, the stack of to-be-reads is overflowing. Was it a mistake to share his truth?Ī High Five for Glenn Burke is Phil Bildner's most personal novel yet, and drives home the message that there's no one way to come out-and there's a place in the field for everyone. When they are up for hours at night with a fever so high you think your thermometer is broken as you call the doctor in the middle of the night. Kids get pulled from the team, fingers point at Silas, and he stages one big cover-up with terrible consequences. Soon he tells his best friend Zoey, but the longer he keeps his secret from his baseball teammates, the more he suspects they know something's up.

Burke was a black gay baseball player in the 1970s-and for Silas, the presentation is his own first baby step toward coming out as gay. When sixth grader Silas Walker does a school presentation on former Major League Baseball player Glenn Burke, it's more than just a report on the inventor of the high five. A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner Edition Hardcover edition Publisher Macmillan Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN 9780374312732 Awards and Honors 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist 12.90 10. A heartfelt and relatable novel from Phil Bildner, weaving the real history of Los Angeles Dodger and Oakland Athletic Glenn Burke-the first professional baseball player to come out as gay-into the story of a middle-school kid learning to be himself.