in 88 games for the Padres in 1993, and .215 in 84 games for the Padres in 1994. After playing for the Padres in 1995, Bean opted to retire from baseball after the 1995 season. Personal life Billy Bean married his college sweetheart when he was 24-years-old. He left the marriage four years later after meeting his partner Sam, an Iranian immigrant who was raised in Austria. Sam later died of HIV-related causes the day before Bean's final MLB season. Bean did not attend the funeral. Bean came out as gay to his parents in 1998. He came out publicly to Lydia Martin of the Miami Herald in 1999, becoming the second Major League Baseball player to publicly come out as gay; Glenn Burke was the first to come out to his teammates and employers during his playing days but did not come out to the public at large until his career was over. After leaving baseball, Bean moved to Miami Beach, Florida to be with his partner Efrain Veiga, the founder of Yuca restaurant in Miami. Bean and Veiga were together for thirteen years, breaking up in July 2008. In 2003, Bean released a memoir titled Going the Other Way: Lessons from a Life in and out of Major League Baseball. Bean was appointed MLB's first "Ambassador for Inclusion" on July 15, 2014. In this role, Bean counseled David Denson, who became the first minor league player signed to an MLB organization to come out as gay. Bean is married to his husband Greg, a doctor. They live in New York City. Television appearances Bean was a panelist on GSN's I've Got a Secret revival in 2006, and is a board member of the Gay and Lesbian Athletics Foundation. He appeared in a 2009 episode of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, showing Griffin several homes. In the summer of 2007, it was announced that he had been 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 in order to survive in the sports world; Showtime did not go forward with the series. Bean starred in a MTV episode of Made, he