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Billy Bean on leaving Major League Baseball, and returning to it, for love
In 1995, Billy Bean gave up the game he loved for the man he loved.
Playing for the San Diego Padres, the lefty outfielder fell in love while on a road trip to Miami. Given what he felt at the time was a complete antipathy to gay ballplayers (to this day, not one MLB player has come out), he felt he had little choice but to retire at the end of the season to live more openly as a gay...
