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Also by Billy Bean:

Going The Other Way, March 2004
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GOING THE OTHER WAY
By: Billy Bean

Lessons From A Life In And Out Of Major League Baseball

Marlowe & Company
March 2004
On Sale: March 3, 2004
Featuring: Billy Bean
272 pages
ISBN: 1569244618
EAN: 9781569244616
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Memoir

Last spring Billy Bean, the only living openly gay former major leaguer, gained national attention with his breakthrough memoir, Going the Other Way—an unprecedented chronicle of America's national pastime that went on to sell more than 25,000 copies. Bean brings us inside the clubhouse and onto the playing field, offering dead-on insight into the game and the physical and emotional demands it makes on players. Bean faced an agonizing choice, in secrecy and solitude, between continuing to play the game he loved and the honesty of a loving relationship.

By turns heartbreaking and farcical, ruminative and uncensored, the book culminates in a respectful, deeply felt appeal to Major League Baseball and other professional team sports to live up to their promise of equality and opportunity. A testament to the power of the single voice, Going the Other Way is an exemplary American tale that points the way toward a more perfect game, one in which all men and women can pursue their athletic dreams free of prejudice and discrimination. A

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