By Alex Williams 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 ...

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Indeed, Billy Bean was someone who worked tirelessly to create a greater level of equality and inclusion in the sport of ...

Billy Bean, a onetime big-league outfielder who came out as gay after he retired, then later became a Major League Baseball executive and its first “ambassador for inclusion,” died Aug. 6 at ...

Billy Bean, a former Los Angeles Dodger who went on to become the first diversity chief for Major League Baseball, died on Tuesday. He was 60. Major League Baseball said in a statement that the ...

Billy Bean, MLB's senior vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion who also served as a special advisor to commissioner Rob Manfred, has died at the age of 60, the league announced Tuesday.

FILE - Billy Bean, Major League Baseball vice president of Social Responsibility & Inclusion, throws out the ceremonial first pitch to Seattle Mariners' Felix Hernandez before a baseball game ...

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 ...