“I was a major league baseball player for six years and left,” Bean told Yahoo Finance’s On the Move. “I was living a secret life, and the culture was just so different. And think what’s exciting about this opportunity is we have a chance to change the narrative.”
“I wasn’t a player that made a lot of money,” Bean told Yahoo Finance’s On the Move. “I always knew I was going to have to go to work. But there are so many people that have been afraid up until recent times and still many in the workplace that don’t want to be identified specifically based on their private life or their sexual orientation or gender identity expression because of the way that others are going to view them unfairly.”
Bean sees sports as a great vehicle for positive change.
“Sports are a great lens into, you know, society,” Bean said. “There is some reticence to [come out] because of the way the media will sensationalize that. Jason Collins, a great, great friend of mine, was — has been the only professional athlete — he played in the NBA — to come out while he was an active player. He’s been an incredible ambassador for the sports world.”
One day in the future players will be allowed to live their lives without fear of coming out.
It’s guys like this that will help make that happen. . .
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