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Billy Bean Dies: Second MLB Player To Come Out, Who Later Led Diversity Efforts, Was 60
Former Dodger Billy Bean is dead at 60.
Billy Bean, a former Los Angeles Dodger who went on to become the first diversity chief for Major League Baseball, died on Tuesday. Glenn Burke, an outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics, announced his sexual orientation after he retired in 1982. Of his retirement, done in part to hide his same sex relationship, Bean said, “Baseball, I knew, wasn’t ready for a guy like me.”
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