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Minor league baseball team cancels Pride Night game after players refuse to wear rainbows
Minor league baseball’s York Revolution declined to play it’s Pride Night game on Thursday and opted instead to forfeit after players refused to wear uniforms that featured a rainbow design, team officials said.
The Revolution’s game against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs was going to mark the Pennsylvania team’s 11th Annual Pride Night, but players refused to don special jerseys that had rainbow sleeves.
“This decision was not reached lightly,” according to a team statement.
The spirit of Pride Night would’ve been compromised if players had been forced to wear uniforms that celebrated the community, the Revolution said. Other Pride Night events were held.
Minor league team forfeits game after players refuse to wear Pride jerseys
A minor league team in the independent Atlantic League announced it will forfeit its Thursday, June 18 game after several of its players refused to wear jerseys commemorating the club's Pride Night.
The York (Pa.) Revolution issued the startling announcement Wednesday in advance of its home game against Southern Maryland the following night. The club said it will proceed with Pride Night activities, hosted as a free admission event; fans holding tickets for Thursday's game can redeem it for a future date.
The players' refusal to don the jerseys comes in the wake of San Francisco Giants pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Sam Hentges either inscribing a Bible verse on their caps or refusing to wear the commemorative hats for the club's longstanding Pride night, held June 12.
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York Revolution forfeit game after players refuse to wear 'Pride Night' jersey
YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — The York Revolution has forfeited its game Thursday night against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs after an internal controversy surrounding "Pride Night" and the pride jersey, according to the team.
In a statement, the club announced that, out of respect for the Pride community and the York community as a whole, the June 18 game will be forfeited, but Pride Night festivities will continue as the feature element at WellSpan Park.
The decision comes on the heels of several of the team's players refusing to wear the Pride Night jersey. As a result, the club decided the team should not be forced to wear jerseys they aren't comfortable with.
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