How playing catch helped this gay baseball fan ‘slay my dragons’ of Little League trauma
By Ken Schultz · Published on Outsports
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that you’re never too old to fall in love with it. Even if it was largely responsible for repelling you from sports for decades. Michael Nehring is an accomplished actor, director, and recently retired theater professor who taught for 42 years. When he was growing up as a gay kid in the 1950s and 60s, the experience of trying to play baseball in a hypermasculine straight world scarred him. For decades, he thought that pain would la