NEW YORK -- Billy Bean, who in 1999 became the second former Major League Baseball player to come out as gay and later became the sport's senior vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion ...

Bean, who was also Special Assistant to commissioner Rob Manfred, had been battling Acute Myeloid Leukemia for the past year. He spent the past decade working with teams on player education ...

Bean was selected Wednesday by the Memphis Showboats with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 United Football League College ... to be taken in the UFL draft, a player had to be eligible and ...

The Colts waived Bean on Tuesday, JJ Stankevitz of the team's official site reports. Bean signed with the Colts in May as an undrafted free agent. The Kansas product competed against Sam Ehlinger ...