American baseball player and manager

Billy Beane

William Lamar Beane III is an American former professional baseball player and current front office executive. He is currently senior advisor to owner John Fisher and minority owner of the Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB) and formerly the executive vice president of baseball operations. He is also a minority owner of soccer clubs Barnsley of the EFL League One in England and AZ Alkmaar of the Eredivisie in the Netherlands. From 1984 to 1989 he played in MLB as an outfielder for the New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland Athletics.

Born

1962

March 29

Died

Living

Era

1960s

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Billy, in brief

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Key dates

1962 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

1139 Pope Innocent II issues the bull Omne datum optimum in which he endorses the Knights Templar and approves the Templar Rule.
1430 The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.
1461 Battle of Towton: Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England, bringing a temporary stop to the Wars of the Roses.
1549 The city of Salvador, Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.

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The world in 1962

When Billy arrived

april 21 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
april 26 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
april 26 The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
august 11 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on March 29

Brad McCrimmon 1959– Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2011) Christopher Lambert 1957– American-French actor Edwin Lutyens 1869–1944 English architect, designed the Castle Drogo and Thiepval Memorial (born 1869) Israel Finkelstein 1949– Israeli archaeologist and professor Jo Nesbø 1960– Norwegian writer, musician and football player John Tyler 1790–1862 American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States (born 1790) Lou Henry Hoover 1874– American philanthropist and geologist, 33rd First Lady of the United States (died 1944) Michael Brecker 1949–2007 American saxophonist and composer (born 1949) Nick Ut 1951– Vietnamese-American photographer

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1962

Art Alexakis 1962– American singer-songwriter and musician Brian Azzarello 1962– American author Chris Sanders 1962– American illustrator and voice actor Clint Black 1962– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer David Arnold 1962– English composer Dee Bradley Baker 1962– American voice actor Denis O'Hare 1962– American actor and singer Evander Holyfield 1962– American boxer and actor Flea 1962– Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor

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