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William Lamar Beane III (born March 29, 1962) is an American former professional baseball player and current front office executive. He is currently senior advisor to owner John Fisher [1] and minority owner of the Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB) and formerly the executive vice president of baseball operations.
Bean's father, Bill Bean, and mother, Linda Robertson, grew up on the same street and were classmates at Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California. [5] The couple married while Linda was pregnant, then separated when Billy was six months old. Linda married Ed Kovac, a police officer with three children.
Kerris Dorsey (born January 9, 1998) [1] is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Paige Whedon in the television series Brothers & Sisters; [2] Casey Beane, Billy Beane's daughter, in the 2011 film Moneyball; and as Emily Cooper in the 2014 film Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Billy Bean, a special advisor to commissioner Rob Manfred and MLB's senior vice president for diversity, equality, and inclusion, has died after a yearlong fight with acute myeloid leukemia, the ...
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In 1999, Bean became the second former MLB player to come out as gay. Glenn Burke was the first. “Billy was a friend to countless people across our game, and he made a difference through his ...
In 1999, he joined the Oakland Athletics organization as the assistant general manager, serving as second-in-command to general manager Billy Beane. [3] DePodesta was a key figure in Michael Lewis's book Moneyball. The book thrust the analytical principles of sabermetrics into the mainstream.
Based upon Chuck Luchsinger's American children's show "Jolly Gene & His Fun Machine", like Jolly Gene, Billy Bean also ran a train and was dressed as an American locomotive engineer (train driver). John Wright made the puppets and equipment, the series was written by Lisa Lincoln, with Reginald Jeffryes drawing what was seen on the ...