Not to be confused with longtime Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, Bean was a trailblazer as both a player and executive. The Detroit Tigers selected Bean out of LMU in the fourth ...

Getty Images Bean passed away on Tuesday of acute myeloid leukemia. Russo — still believing it be the other baseball’s other Billy Beane — called it a terrible story, speculating who may ...

Former MLB outfielder Billy Bean, who has served in the commissioner’s office as senior vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as a special assistant to the commissioner ...

So, that’s a terrible story of Billy Beane.” That lasted roughly 90 seconds. Then, after he began to read MLB’s statement on Bean’s passing, Russo realized the mistake. “Billy ...

Bean also had a hard time breaking out because there was another player in the league with a similar name — Billy Beane, whose time with the Oakland Athletics would be immortalized in the film ...

Billy Beane, who went on to become the storied general manager of the Oakland A’s (he was portrayed by Brad Pitt in the 2011 film “Moneyball”). The Tigers traded Bean to the Dodgers in 1989 ...

Later that evening, Russo seemingly read the name “Billy Bean” and got confused it with the former A’s GM. Beane, 62, rose to fame thanks to his cost-effective method of assembling teams ...

Additionally, it is important not to misunderstand Billy Bean for the Billy Beane from the movie Moneyball. The other Billy Beane, whose full name is William Lamar Beane III, is the former ...

Bean is not the former general manager of the Oakland Athletics of the same name, Billy Beane, who was the focus of the 2011 biographical film "Moneyball" and was portrayed by Brad Pitt.

226, 108 hits, five home runs and 53 RBIs. Bean – not to be confused with Billy Beane, the Oakland A’ executive featured in the book and movie “Moneyball” – was part of a state ...

The first was Glenn Burke, who played in the 1970s and died in 1995. (Mr. Bean was not related to Billy Beane, a big-league outfielder who later became a top executive with the Oakland Athletics ...