Going the Other Way: Lessons from a Life in and out of Major-League Baseball (signed)

New York: Marlowe & Company, 2003. SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the half title page. "Autographed" copy sticker on the jacket's front panel. Fine condition in a bright, shiny Very Good dust jacket. Sharp corners. Clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. 2003. First printing of the First Edition with complete number row (987654321) on the copyright page. Photo illustrated. Bound in the original blue boards with a dark blue spine, lettered in bright gold. From the publisher: "Billy Bean is the first major league baseball player to publicly discuss his homosexuality and the first athlete in a professional American team sport to do so since all-pro football player Dave Kopay came out in 1975. By 1996, when Bean retired at age thirty-two from the game he loved after ten years as a pro ballplayer for the Tigers, Dodgers, and Padres, he had become disillusioned by the sport that had defined his life. Bean found himself forced to choose between his love of baseball and the man he loved. It was an agonizing end to a career in which he struggled to make the most of his role as a utility player in America's most physically and emotionally demanding sport. But out of the premature demise of his career, Bean came to see what the game had taught him and helped him to understand what could be done to improve the major leagues for the next generation of young athletes, so they can navigate the challenges and rewards of the game on their own terms. Bean recently starred as himself on HBO's popular Arli$$ and appears frequently as a commentator on sports and politics on national TV." . SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xiii, 256pp. + 8 pages of photos. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.