Contents:
- IS SANDY KOUFAX GAY?
- KOUFAX STRIK OUT AT GAY MOR
- SANDY KOUFAX IS GAY
- SANDY KOUFAX SISTS HE'S NOT GAY
- IS KOUFAX GAY? DO MATTER?
- KOUFAX CUTS TI AFTER REPORT IMPLIED HE WAS GAY
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.
SANDY KOUFAX 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 SISTS HE'S NOT 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 ?
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.
IS KOUFAX GAY? DO MATTER?
's New York Post that timated Koufax is gay.
KOUFAX CUTS TI AFTER REPORT IMPLIED HE WAS 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. 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.
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.