Linda initially worked as a uniformed officer, but because women could not be in the same police departments as their husbands, she quit her job upon remarriage.
He had a total of 6 bases with two doubles and won over the fans in Tiger Stadium who were chanting his name in the later inning at-bats.
[13] On July 17, 1989, the Tigers traded Bean to the Los Angeles Dodgers for minor leaguers Steve Green and Domingo Michel.
[13] Bean was a panelist on GSN's I've Got a Secret revival in 2006,[22][23] and was a board member of the Gay and Lesbian Athletics Foundation.
[25] In 2007, Bean was hired as a consultant by Scout Productions, the team of David Collins and Michael Williams, who produced Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, for their next project with Showtime entitled The Beard.
The project was to be a romantic comedy about a gay professional baseball player who enters into a relationship with a woman to survive in the sports world; Showtime did not go forward with the series.
[5][15] The Bean-Amato wedding was held on the Bluff at Loyola and attended by 300 guests, including 20 major league baseball players.
[5] Two years into his marriage, while playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers' AAA affiliate in Albuquerque, Bean met a man at a cowboy-themed gay bar.
[5][15] Bean and his new partner Madani, who was raised in Austria and France, and spoke six languages, moved into a multi-level condo with ocean views in a Del Mar, California, gated community.
[5] Bean gave Madani a private tour of the Padres locker room at Jack Murphy Stadium, showing him the behind-the-scenes world of an MLB player.
[31][5][15] In 1994, Bean hosted a Super Bowl party for friends and family members and introduced Madani as "just a buddy".
When Bean returned home after playing in an exhibition game against the Anaheim Angels, he discovered his partner unconscious.
[40] In this role, Bean counseled David Denson, who became the first minor league player signed to an MLB organization to come out as gay.
[42][43][44][45] At the time of his death, Bean was married to Greg Baker, a doctor, Manchester, New Hampshire native, and Boston Red Sox fan.