Ex-ball player Billy Bean says he's relieved to be out
Former major-league outfielder Billy Bean waved to the crowd as the special guest of Chicago's Pride parade Sunday. Bean, 39, came out in 1999, four years after his playing days with the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers and Padres. He says he only wishes he had been strong enough and the world open enough to have allowed him to come out years before. He leaves out the part where he came out by accident and yelled at the reporter who merely wrote it all down. Chicago Sun Times
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