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Billy Bean (other)
Billy Bean (1964–2024) was an American baseball player who publicly came out as gay. Billy Bean or Billy Beane may also refer to: * Billy Bean (musician) (1933–2012), American jazz guitarist * Billy Bean (footballer) (1915–1993), born Alfred Samuel Bean, English footballer *Billy Beane (born 1962), Oakland Athletics general manager and former baseball player *Billy Bean, puppet character in 1950s UK children's TV series Billy Bean and His Funny Machine See also *Bill Beaney Bill Beaney Jr. (born July 21, 1951) is a retired college men's ice hockey coach. He has coached hockey teams in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, and was the head coach at Middlebury College, Middlebury from 1986 until 2015. He led the Middlebu ... (born 1951), American ice hockey coach * Billy McBean (1889–1976), Australian-rules football player * Willie Bean, a dog * William Bean (other) {{hndis, Bean, Billy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Bean
William Daro Bean (May 11, 1964 – August 6, 2024) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder for the Detroit Tigers (1987–1989), Los Angeles Dodgers (1989), and San Diego Padres (1993–1995), as well as the Kintetsu Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) in 1992. In July 2014, he was named MLB's first ambassador for inclusion, having publicly come out as gay in 1999. In January 2016, he became MLB's vice president, ambassador for inclusion and was senior vice president and special assistant to the commissioner. Early life 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. 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. Linda initially worked as a uniformed officer, but because women could not be in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Bean (musician)
William Fredrick Bean (December 26, 1933 – February 6, 2012) was an American jazz guitarist from Philadelphia. Career Bean was born into a musical family in Philadelphia. His mother played the piano. His father was an amateur singer and guitarist, and his sister was a professional singer. He started on guitar at the age of twelve. His father taught him some of the basics on guitar before he received lessons from Howard Herbert. Then he studied for about one year with Dennis Sandole. During the late 1940s and 1950s, he performed at venues in the Philadelphia area. In the mid-1950s, he moved to New York City and recorded with Charlie Ventura and Red Callender, and in 1958 he moved to Los Angeles to record for Decca. In Los Angeles, he worked with Buddy Collette, Paul Horn, John Pisano, Bud Shank, Milt Bernhart, Les Elgart, Herb Geller, Lorraine Geller, Calvin Jackson, and Zoot Sims. In October, 1959, Bean returned to New York City after accepting Tony Bennett's offer to join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Bean (footballer)
Alfred Samuel Bean (25 August 1915 – 25 November 1993), known as Alf or Billy Bean, was an English footballer who made 171 appearances in the Football League playing for Lincoln City either side of the Second World War. He began his career as an outside left, switched to wing half, and later played even further back, at left back In the sport of association football, a defender is an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categ .... Notes References 1915 births 1993 deaths Footballers from Lincoln, England English men's footballers Men's association football wing halves Men's association football fullbacks Lincoln City F.C. players English Football League players Place of death missing 20th-century English sportsmen {{England-footy-midfielder-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Beane
William Lamar Beane III (born March 29, 1962) is an American former professional baseball player and current Front office (sports), front office executive. He is currently senior advisor to owner John Fisher (baseball owner), John Fisher and minority owner of the Athletics (baseball), Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB) and formerly the executive vice president of baseball operations. He is also minority owner of soccer clubs Barnsley F.C., Barnsley of the EFL League One in England and AZ Alkmaar of the Eredivisie in the Netherlands. From 1984 to 1989 he played in MLB as an outfielder for the New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland Athletics. He joined the Athletics' front office as a scout (sports), scout in 1990, was named general manager (baseball), general manager after the 1997 season, and was promoted to executive vice president after the 2015 season. A first-round pick in the MLB draft by the Mets, Beane failed to meet the expectations of scou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Bean And His Funny Machine
''Billy Bean and His Funny Machine'' is a UK children's TV series which was first broadcast by the BBC in 1953. It concluded in 1957 after 36 episodes. Premise The show featured a puppet called Billy Bean, who operated a large machine which possessed devices such as a Dorset-Faucet (named after the inventor, Mr. Faucet of Dorset) and a Mixerator. Billy could produce anything he drew on the "cartoonerator", although misunderstanding led to many mistakes made with humorous results. Billy was accompanied by Yoo-Hoo the Cuckoo, who always laid an egg at least once every episode, which would be rolled down the machine via zig-zag chutes, and Lester, the unseen engine room operator. Production 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 Regina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Beaney
Bill Beaney Jr. (born July 21, 1951) is a retired college men's ice hockey coach. He has coached hockey teams in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, and was the head coach at Middlebury College, Middlebury from 1986 until 2015. He led the Middlebury hockey team to eight NCAA Division III, Division III championships from 1995 to 2006 and ranks 13th all-time among college men's ice hockey coaches with 601 wins (as of 2021). Athlete Beaney grew up playing hockey in the youth leagues of Lake Placid, New York, where he was coached by his father, Bill Beaney Sr. Beaney became a star athlete at Lake Placid high school. He was recruited by more than 30 colleges and enrolled at the University of New Hampshire ("UNH"). He played four years of varsity hockey at UNH and was the captain of the 1973 team. Coaching career Early years After graduating from UNH in 1973, Beaney coached hockey at the Bellows Free Academy, St. Albans, Bellows Free Academy in Saint Albans, Vermont. He led the BFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy McBean
William Harold McBean (28 February 1889 – 19 June 1976) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of William McBean (1858-1921), and Lucy Margaret Leontine McBean (1862-1949), née Mortimer, William Harold McBean was born at Hawthorn, Victoria on 28 February 1889. He married Mary Rothwell Dougall in 1917. They were divorced in 1934. Education He attended Scotch College, Melbourne Scotch College is a private, Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The college was established in 1851 as The Melbourne Academy in a house in Spri ... in 1906, and was a member of the Scotch College premiership First XVIII in 1906. Football Melbourne (VFL) He played one match for the Melbourne Football Club: against University on 14 August 1909. Richmond (VFL) Although cleared from Melbourne to Richmond in 1910, he did no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Bean
Willie Bean Roscoe P Coltrane is a yellow labrador retriever who has been the focus of several political satires during 2008, and is also the first dog who ran for mayor of Fairhope, Alabama. Tress Turner is the owner and director of the Willie Bean for Mayor and Willie Bean for President campaigns. Local recognition Received the ceremonial first catch before the Mobile BayBears Braves game. Icon for Baldwin Animal Rescue Center (BARC), a Humane society group, and Fairhope Dog Park Coalition, in an attempt to increase donations for a Fairhope Dog Park. As of November 16, 2008, Willie Bean has helped raise almost 2,000 dollars towards the cause. National recognition Willie Bean was mentioned in an act on the ''Late Show with David Letterman'' in a satire attempt to elect Muffins the Turtle. Willie Bean was also selected as one of the Creatures Small and Great of 2008 by AOL News. History Similar events in 2004 in Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, elected Junior Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
