ST. PETERSBURG — An hour before they left for Tropicana Field, Josh Whitman sat his 10-year-old son down for an uncomfortable conversation.
He had to tell his son that last weekend 49 people died in a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, and more were injured. Buying tickets to watch the Tampa Bay Rays play the San Francisco Giants was a small way they could help.
The words didn’t come easily.
“It’s just sad,” said son Jayden Whitman.
Rays officials spent months planning their annual celebration of LGBT Pride month, but when the worst mass shooting in U.