Koufax strik out at gay mor (7805)

Contents:

• IS SANDY KOUFAX GAY?
• KOUFAX STRIK OUT AT GAY MOR
• SANDY KOUFAX IS GAY
• NEW YORK POST RETRACTS BLD EM IMPLYG KOUFAX IS GAY
• SANDY KOUFAX SISTS HE'S NOT GAY
• IS SANDY KOUFAX GAY? KNOW MORE ABOUT HIS LIFE!
• IS SANDY KOUFAX GAY? AGE, HEIGHT, NET WORTH
• NEW YORK POST APOLOGIZ FOR KOUFAX-IS-GAY GOSSIP EM

IS SANDY KOUFAX GAY?

Sandy Koufax won't have anythg to do wh the Los Angel Dodgers anymore bee he's not gay. I also have nothg to do wh the Dodgers, and I'm not gay, and there end all siari between . -- said that the famoly private Koufax, 67, is gay.

"Which Hall of Fame baseball hero operated wh a bt-sellg bgraphy only bee the thor promised to keep a secret that he is gay?

KOUFAX STRIK OUT AT GAY MOR

Almost every one of those thoand newspaper stori exprsed outrage at the Post for s sleazy journalism, and if you skim down each of them you variably get to a passage that says somethg like, "Whether Sandy Koufax is gay or not isn't the issue.

It don't matter if he's gay or straight or lik one-eyed teddy bears lerhosen. And yet I n't help thkg that matters very much whether Sandy Koufax is gay. Five me for not que believg that journalistic tegry is more important to the Amerin public than whether or not a major sports figure is gay.

All those wrers who wrote that don't matter whether Koufax is gay wouldn't have wrten that don't matter whether he's abed a garner. Yet somehow the accatn that Koufax had done somethg really wrong wouldn't have seemed as outrageo as the accatn that he's gay, even though we all know there's nothg wrong wh that. Last summer was Mike Piazza, who rpond to a Page Six em by holdg an impromptu prs nference around the battg ge to announce that he is not gay.

SANDY KOUFAX IS GAY

If anyone had asked Koufax about , he uld have said he's not gay or that he don't thk 's anyone's bs. And, uh, if so don't matter whether he's gay or not, why would anyone have asked him about ?

NEW YORK POST RETRACTS BLD EM IMPLYG KOUFAX IS GAY

He wasn't obligated to rpond at all, and he hasn't, except to qu the Dodgers, but I wish Koufax, so wily admired, had said, "Well, maybe I am gay. It might have showed people that beg lled gay isn't the same as beg acced of a crime.

's New York Post that timated Koufax is gay.

The Post reported that a "Hall of Fame baseball hero" had "operated wh a bt-sellg bgraphy only bee the thor promised to keep secret that he is gay. The New York Post, then owned — as were the Dodgers — by News Corp., planted a bld em suatg that Koufax was gay.

SANDY KOUFAX SISTS HE'S NOT GAY

Sandy Koufax is gay. WHICH Hall of Fame baseball hero operated wh a bt-sellg bgraphy only bee the thor promised to keep secret that he is gay? The only guy (gay?

IS SANDY KOUFAX GAY? KNOW MORE ABOUT HIS LIFE!

One of those dog-that-didn't-bark qutns is why, spe the vast number of books wrten about baseball players, I have never heard of a sgle proment player history who sound like he probably was homosexual.

IS SANDY KOUFAX GAY? AGE, HEIGHT, NET WORTH

There mt have been at least 10, 000 major league ballplayers over the last 130 yearsTwo really obscure players -- Glenn Burke (who died of AIDS 1995) and Billy Bean (not the celebrated "Moneyball" general manager of Oakland -- that's Billy Beane) -- me out of the clost, but that's for admted homosexuals the history of big league baseball. Maybe 1, 000 ballplayers history would be more or ls "famo" and th would be subject to nstant remiscenc and only mor I've heard about about a proment player of the past beg gay reflected speratn more than evince.

A New York gossip lumnist claimed Sandy Koufax was gay, which would be a surprise to his live- girliend (who is First Lady Lra Bh's old llege roommate), his two ex-wiv, and his neighbors all the small, nservative ral towns the Jewish, Brooklyn-bred Koufax has chosen to live Idaho, Mae, North Carola, and Oregon sce he retired om the LA Dodgers 1966. Koufax nounced the mor, then had to put up wh a lot of tsk-tskg about how backward baseball players are not to e out of the about famo players who displayed tras that rrelate to some gree wh homosexualy? Instead, among other jobs, he'd worked as a florist, a job wh an above-average ncentratn of gay men.

NEW YORK POST APOLOGIZ FOR KOUFAX-IS-GAY GOSSIP EM

Compare baseball to a more obscure sport, ntrast, we know that the greatt tennis player of the 1920s, Bill Tiln, was a homosexual pedophile. I'm not sayg there have not been any famo gay baseball players, but I am timatg that ls than 1. 0% of the top 1000 players of the past were homosexual.

The Post published a reference December to an unintified "Hall of Fame baseball hero" who is secretly gay. The paper said the player operated on a bgraphy after the book's thor, who also wasn't intified, agreed to keep the player's homosexualy private. Homophobic and idtic, y.

Gay, no.