In 2014 Billy Bean was appointed Major League Baseball's first Ambassador for Inclusion, in which role he is at the fore of the League's efforts for a fair and equitable workplace throughout all of baseball.
Chris Bull is cofounder of Gay Cities: Your Travel and City Guide and editorial director of Queerty.com, the most popular LGBT blog in the world.

A passionate memoir of the challenges Bean faced as a closeted gay athlete.-- "Sports Illustrated"

The courage Bean shows in telling his story is incredible.-- "Los Angeles Times"

A fresh and insightful book. . . . Bean excels at capturing the rhythms of the game. . . . In telling his story, Bean has lent a hand of support to other ballplayers who might now be facing the same decision.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"

A surprisingly honest account from a professional athlete . . . . This is a very good book to get a glimpse at what an athlete endures to play the game.-- "Gregg's Baseball Bookcase blog"

This gut-wrenching story is an amazing triumph of character over circumstances. Billy Bean is an inspiration.--Brad Ausmus, manager of the Detroit Tigers and former MLB all-star catcher

A story [told] with oral immediacy and winning personality. Sports claimed [Bean] long before homosexuality did, and his love of baseball gives the book its powerful charm.-- "Booklist"

Billy Bean's book is candid, generous, and courageous. It adds a new dimension to the world of sports literature. Nice going, Billy.--Jim Bouton, former MLB pitcher for the New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves, and author of Ball Four

Reads more like an Everyman tale than a manifesto, and is more effective for it.-- "New York Daily News"

[Bean] tells a remarkable story of his unremarkable career--a paltry .227 average in the majors--and his wrenching struggle with his sexuality. . . . Bean's candor, self-effacing humor, and brutal honesty will win him . . . new [fans].-- "Entertainment Weekly"

Fluently written and compulsively readable, Going the Other Way is at once a briskly paced account of life in baseball and the fiercely moving chronicle of a divided heart. It's a major contribution to the literature of sport, straight or gay.--Richard Greenberg, author of the Tony Award-winning play Take Me Out

It took a lot of courage for Billy Bean to play baseball in the major leagues--and even more to write about it--with insight and humor.--Peter Lefcourt, author of The Dreyfus Affair and Eleven Karens

Publisher: Experiment, LLC

Pub date: 2014-10-21

Length: 272 pages