Billy Bean
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William Daro "Billy" Bean (May 11, 1964 – August 6, 2024) was a Major League Baseball player. Bean was an outfielder, a pinch hitter, and a first baseman. He threw and batted left.[1] He played for the Detroit Tigers from 1987 to 1989, the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1989 and for the San Diego Padres from 1993 to 1995.
Bean was born in Santa Ana, California. He attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Bean was gay, and wrote a book, Going the Other Way: Lessons from a Life in and out of Major League Baseball.[2] For 13 years, Bean was the partner of Efrain Viega, the founder of Yuca restaurant in Miami. They broke up in July 2008.[3][4]
Bean has appeared on television. He starred in a MTV episode of Made, and he was an actor in an episode of the sitcom Frasier.[5]
Bean was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in 2023. He died from the disease on August 6, 2024 in New York City at the age of 60.[6][7]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Bill Bean". Baseball Reference. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
- ↑ Sean Bugg (15 May 2003). "Out of the Park: Former pro-baseball player Billy Bean pursues a new field of dreams". Metro Weekly. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
- ↑ Buzinski, Jim (June 29, 2008). "Billy Bean, partner split". OutSports. Archived from the original on 2008-08-13. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- ↑ "Bean-Viega Split Accompanied by Tragedy". The Advocate. July 11, 2008. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- ↑ See https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1467905/
- ↑ Feinsand, Mark (August 6, 2024). "Baseball trailblazer Billy Bean, who dedicated life to inclusion, dies at 60". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media, LP. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
- ↑ "Bean, openly gay ex-player who worked for MLB, dies at 60". ESPN.com. August 6, 2024. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Billy Bean.com Archived 2011-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
- Baseball Library page Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
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