William Daro "Billy" Bean (born May 11, 1964 in Santa Ana, California) is a former Major League Baseball player who made news in 1999 when he made his homosexuality public.

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  • William Daro "Billy" Bean (born May 11, 1964 in Santa Ana, California) is a former Major League Baseball player who made news in 1999 when he made his homosexuality public. Bean was an outfielder, and left-handed hitter, with 487 at bats with a . 226 batting average in a career that lasted from 1987 through 1995: Detroit Tigers 1987-1989, Los Angeles Dodgers 1989, San Diego Padres 1993-1995. He also played for the Kintetsu Buffaloes in Japan in REDIRECT Template:Baseball Year. Bean tied a major league record with four hits in his first major league game. After acknowledging that he is gay, Bean went on to write a book, "Going the Other Way: Lessons from a life in and out of Major League Baseball". Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content Bean is only the second former major league player to reveal his homosexuality; the late Los Angeles Dodger and Oakland Athletic Glenn Burke is the only other ex-player to have acknowledged his homosexuality. He was also a panelist on GSN's I've Got A Secret revival in 2006, and is a board member of the Gay and Lesbian Athletics Foundation. In the summer of 2007, it was announced that he had been hired as a consultant by Scout Productions, the team of David Collins and Michael Williams, who produced Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, for their next project with Showtime entitled "The Beard". The project is a romantic comedy about a gay pro baseball player who enters into a relationship with a woman in order to survive in the sports world. Bean also starred in an MTV episode of Made. For 13 years, Bean was the partner of Efrain Viega, the founder of Yuca restaurant in Miami. They broke up in July 2008. (en)
  • ビリー・ビーン（William Daro "Billy" Bean、1964年5月11日 - ）は、アメリカ・カリフォルニア州サンタアナ出身の元野球選手（外野手）。 (ja)
  • William Daro Billy Bean (* 11. Mai 1964 in Santa Ana, Kalifornien) ist ein ehemaliger US-amerikanischer Baseballspieler. Billy Bean spielte von 1987 bis 1995 in der Major League Baseball als Outfielder. Er begann seine Karriere in der MLB bei den Detroit Tigers, bei denen er 1987 bis 1989 spielte. 1989 wechselte er zu den Los Angeles Dodgers, 1993 bis 1995 spielte er bei den San Diego Padres. 1999 outete sich Bean und schrieb ein Buch über sein Leben als homosexueller Baseballspieler mit dem Titel Going the Other Way: Lessons from life in and out of Major League Baseball. Billy Bean ist nach Glenn Burke der zweite Spieler der Major League Baseball, der sich bislang geoutet hat. Billy Bean ist Vorstandsmitglied der LGBT Organisation Gay and Lesbian Athletics Foundation. Bean arbeitet heute als Immobilienmakler in Miami Beach. (de)
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  • William Daro "Billy" Bean (born May 11, 1964 in Santa Ana, California) is a former Major League Baseball player who made news in 1999 when he made his homosexuality public. (en)
  • ビリー・ビーン（William Daro "Billy" Bean、1964年5月11日 - ）は、アメリカ・カリフォルニア州サンタアナ出身の元野球選手（外野手）。 (ja)
  • William Daro Billy Bean (* 11. Mai 1964 in Santa Ana, Kalifornien) ist ein ehemaliger US-amerikanischer Baseballspieler. (de)
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  • ビリー・ビーン (近鉄) (ja)
  • Billy Bean (Baseballspieler) (de)
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