Posted on 06/19/2026 4:49:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A Pennsylvania minor league baseball team has forfeited a scheduled game after several players refused to wear special jerseys planned for the organization’s annual Pride Night event.
The York Revolution announced Tuesday that its June 18 game against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs would not be played after multiple players objected to wearing uniforms created for the promotion.
“It is with great disappointment that the York Revolution have issued important changes to our 11th Annual Pride Night on Thursday, June 18,” the team said in a statement. “Most significantly, the scheduled game between York and Southern Maryland will not be played and Pride will still be hosted as a free admission event.”
According to the team, several players informed club officials they would not participate if required to wear the Pride Night jerseys. Rather than compel players to wear the uniforms, the organization opted to cancel the game while proceeding with the event.
“Unfortunately, several of our players have refused to wear the scheduled Pride Night jersey and the club decided that hosting the event is more important than forcing players to wear jerseys they are not comfortable with and playing the game,” the team said.
The York Revolution said the contest will be recorded as a forfeit. Fans who purchased tickets for the game will be able to exchange them for any remaining regular-season home game, subject to availability.
The organization also announced a $10,000 donation to the Rainbow Rose Center, an LGBTQ advocacy group serving York and Adams counties.
“As a small token of our regret for the last-minute change of plans and support for our LGBTQIA+ representing partners, we are making a $10,000 donation to the Rainbow Rose Center,” the team said.
The Rainbow Rose Center expressed disappointment that the game would not be played but praised the decision to continue with the Pride Night event.
“For more than a decade, this event has represented far more than a baseball game,” the organization said in a statement. “It has been a celebration of visibility, belonging, and community.”
The group also said it appreciated that the team “chose to prioritize the continuation of Pride Night” and provide “a space to gather, celebrate, and be seen” for members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters.
The team did not identify the players who declined to wear the jerseys and has not announced whether any disciplinary action will be taken.
Good for the players who refused to wear those emblems of obscenity. Nice to see there are some who refuse to publicize “pride night”. They are doing the right thing.
Agreed. It’s about darn time. Amazed at how many athletes, amateur and pro, totally capitulate though.
The mission is a baseball game, not a social movement.
I call it the Breads and Circuses syndrome (misdirection).
I image they tried to force the issue.
In April 2006, the American minor league Atlantic League of Professional Baseball formally announced an expansion team for the city of York.[5] One of the prominent members of the team's ownership group was Brooks Robinson, a Golden Glove award-winner, All-Star, and World Series champion third-baseman who played briefly with the minor league old York White Roses and later further south in the Major Leagues with the Baltimore Orioles of the American League from 1955 to 1977.
Brooks Robinson died in 2023 at the age of 86 and there is no indication of his continued association with the team at the time of his death.
I am also kind of curious if this is the first 'Pride Night' for this team.
I am going to guess that it was more than two or three players that refused to wear the Pride Jerseys or they would have just benched the players for the game and changed the rotation. It may cost them the game but they would not have had the embarrassment in the media of a forfeit caused by players refusal to play.
Your guess would be correct. Google AI found this: "Team general manager Ben Shipley noted that fewer than nine players on the 28-man roster were willing to take the field in the uniforms."
Considering the changes Manfred has planned for minor league baseball next year the players probably said the heck with it lets do it.
Hmmmmm! Seems like a win to me. Remember...special treatment is NOT equal treatment.
Only the insane celebrate LGBQT. SICK! Get it and keep it out of our faces!!
So the word ‘forfeit’ was used... but will they plan to play it a a later date? If an actual forfeit, I think an enterprising journalist should ask the other team for their comment....
C’è già troppa frociaggine.
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