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Lest We Forget: Billy Bean

August 7, 2024

I must admit, when I first saw the headline, I though it was Billy Beane, the former GM of the Oakland As for the Moneyball phenomenon. But Billy Bean was a pioneer in his own right, having been  the only living openly gay Major League player (current or former), after coming out in 1999. Glenn […]

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Baseball Best-Sellers, June 21, 2019

June 21, 2019

Happy Solstice, everybody! Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull […]

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Authors appearance: Brian Kenny and Billy Bean

December 6, 2016

Emmy-winning MLB Network anchor Brian Kenny and Billy Bean, MLB’s VP for Social Responsibility and Inclusion, will be the featured speakers  visit on Tuesday, Dec. 13, at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center in Little Falls, NJ. Kenny and Bean will talk baseball, followed by a signing of Kenny’s new book, Ahead of the […]

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