Billy Bean, RIP

[BootmanLA]

Billy Bean, a former MLB player for the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and San Diego Padres, who after coming out served as MLB's "ambassador for inclusion" and later Senior Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, died Tuesday of acute myeloid leukemia. He was 60.

Bean was only the second major league player to come out of the closet. He came out publicly in 1999 in an interview with the Miami Herald, and later wrote a memoir, Going the Other Way, in collaboration with journalist Chris Bull.