Talk:Billy Bean

A news item involving Billy Bean was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 8 August 2024.

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I think there is some modest level of bias in this article.

This article contends that the subject, Billy Bean, walked away from employment in major league baseball "in the prime of his career." I doubt the writer has a high level of expertise in evaluation of major league baseball events. In the history of major league baseball, there have been extremely few players who were still at the "prime" of their careers at age 32, and the small population of those who were so, primarily consisted of "superstar" players. None of them spent about 3 years out of major league baseball at approximately the age of 30, at which time in Billy Bean's life Mr. Bean presumably was playing baseball at the minor league level, attempting to earn a reversal of demotion and a new major league job -- which apparently he secured, at least temporarily (his 487 lifetime "at-bats" indicates a notably low level of actual playing time.) Baseball's respected empirical historian, Bill James, has documented the normal career arc of an athlete in baseball, reaching the peak of his physical abilities and on-field accomplishments around the age of 26 or 27, followed by declining skills, with the rate of decline sharply accelerating after the athlete's 30th birthday. The uncolored facts reported in the Billy Bean article, which admittedly the article does take pains to report, portray a baseball player c. 1995-6 struggling to hang on to the smaller part of his professional career. I believe that the author of the article has phrased the words, "in the prime of his career, Bean walked away from Major League Baseball," to create an effect that will portray Mr. Bean as a heroic figure who made a sacrifice (of an eminent careeer) out of concern from discovering a level of anti-homosexual prejudice in the workplace. I believe the phrasing betrays that the author of the article has some attachment to the article's subject, Mr. Bean, either as a human being, if the author actually knows Mr. Bean, or as a "Cause". I believe also it's important for authors of articles in this wiki-project to hyperlink the term LGBT to make sure to make the article helpful and self-explanatory to general-interest users of encyclopedias. 76.209.175.14 19:03, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That section was a copy and paster from Mr Bean's biography on www.billybean.com (so no wonder it sounded so biased, and was unwikified). This is a copyright violation, and thus has been removed. Proto::► 10:12, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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