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Tributes have been paid to Billy Bean, who has died at the age of 60 following a battle with acute myeloid leukemia. Bean was only the second professional baseball player in the US to come out as ...
Billy Bean, MLB's Senior Vice President for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, died at the age of 60 on Tuesday. Bean, who was also Special Assistant to commissioner Rob Manfred, had been battling ...
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Billy Bean, openly gay ex-player and MLB VP, dies at 60 The former Santa Ana High and LMU star played in six big-league seasons from 1987 to 1995. He publicly came out as gay in 1999, the second ...
Billy Bean has died at the age of 60. In 1999, the former baseball player — whose teams included the Detroit Tigers, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres — was the second former ...
Billy Bean, an all-hustle outfielder for the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres who retired in 1995 because he thought baseball was not ready for an openly gay player, but ...
Billy Bean, Major League Baseball’s VP for diversity, equity and inclusion and special assistant to the commissioner, died at his home on Tuesday. He was 60 years old.
Billy Bean, a former MLB first baseman, outfielder and pinch hitter who served as baseball's most prominent public advocate for LGBTQ inclusion, died Tuesday, the league announced. He was 60. Per ...
MLB Billy Bean, second openly gay ex-MLB player who later worked in commissioner’s office, dies at 60 “Billy was a friend to countless people across our game, and he made a difference through ...
MLB confirmed Tuesday that Billy Bean, the first openly-gay current or former MLB player and the league's senior vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion, died Tuesday after a months-long ...
Billy Bean, Second Openly Gay Ex-MLB Player, Dies at 60 Bean revealed in 2023 that he had been diagnosed with leukemia.