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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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