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William Daro "Billy" Bean (born May 11, 1964 in Santa Ana, California) is a former Major League Baseball player. He attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He was an outfielder, a pinch hitter, and a first baseman. He threw and batted left.[1] Bean is 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]
References
- ↑ "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. http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=472. 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/
Other websites
- Billy Bean.com
- 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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