A's make history with anthem on Pride Night

Billy Bean (right), MLB ambassador for inclusion, meets with Carol Williams, sister of Glenn Burke, before Pride Night in Oakland on Wednesday. OAKLAND -- An email from Billy Beane to Billy Bean helped lead to a historic Pride Night at the Coliseum on Wednesday, in which opera singer Breanna Sinclaire became the first transgender woman to sing the national anthem at a professional sporting event.

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When Bean -- Major League Baseball's Ambassador for Inclusion and one of two players in MLB history to come out as gay -- got his current job, Beane, the A's general manager, emailed him and said he wanted him to speak to the team in Spring…