It’s tough when your obituary has to note who you were not. I saw that more than a few remembrances of Billy Bean noted right away that he wasn’t the Moneyball Billy Beane, and he was the second retired MLB player (naming Glenn Burke as the first) to publicly come out as gay. Having two other people named right away in your own obituary is odd, right?
Billy Bean was used to it in some ways, living life under the radar, in the shadows, being overlooked. But then also he wasn’t: he was prominently in the spotlight for a long time.