Billy Bean while Linda was pregnant, but separated when Billy was six months old. Linda married Ed Kovac, a police officer, and they had five children together. Bean attended Santa Ana High School, and won a state championship with the school's baseball team. He enrolled at Loyola Marymount University on an athletic scholarship to play college baseball for the Loyola Marymount Lions. After his junior year, the New York Yankees selected Bean in the 24th round of the 1985 MLB Draft. Though the Yankees offered Bean a $55,000 signing bonus, Bean followed through with his promise to return to Loyola Marymount for
Scholarship America On January 1, 2003, CSFA changed its name to Scholarship America; in the spring of that year, the organization surpassed the $1 billion mark in terms of funds distributed to students. On December 4, 2014, Scholarship America announced a commitment to increase the number of colleges and universities with which it partners to support low- to moderate-income students and communities of greatest need. The new focus was announced alongside Scholarship America's attendance at the second White House College Opportunity Day of Action, where organizations announced over 600 new actions to help more students prepare for and graduate from college. As