Koufax gay
'If They Could Inform, You Wouldn't Ask' - A Commentary
By Rawlins Gilliland, KERA commentator
Dallas, TX – Recently, I peruse a local newspaper population column, where he explained to the relieved readership that the rumors about Sandy Koufax being same-sex attracted were not true - and furthermore, how could anyone have thought so in the first place since Mr. Koufax has, among other things, "lived with a woman for years." This "journalist" apparently did not see "Far From Heaven." To presume to validate a man's heterosexuality simply because he is married and/or has children is just about as dumb as assuming men who remain solo are gay. That line of thinking is as "dated" as - adv, society columns.
I am not interested in whether Sandy Koufax is gay or straight - and neither I would think would anyone else be, unless of course, they were hoping to sleep with him. Anyone who thinks that they could be likely candidates to couple with Ricky Martin, Tom Cruise, or Derek Jeter, heterosexual or homosexual, is more delusional than Michael Jackson. So, why the preoccupation with whom a
Sandy Koufax
—Present
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Sanford Koufax
BORN: December 30,
BIRTHPLACE: Brooklyn, New York
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Capricorn
Who is Sandy Koufax
Born on December 30, , in Brooklyn, New York, Sandy Koufax signed by the hometown Brooklyn Dodgers, the hard-throwing left-hander was the most dominant pitcher in baseball until elbow arthritis forced an first retirement at age Koufax became the youngest player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in , and has since served as a pitching instructor for his former team.
Early Years
Sandy Koufax was born Sanford Braun on December 30, , in Brooklyn, New York. The future baseball great took on his more familiar surname at age 9 when his mother, Evelyn, remarried attorney Irving Koufax. An outstanding schoolboy player, Koufax starred at basketball and barely played baseball during his time at Lafayette High School. However, he emerged as a hard-throwing left-handed pitcher at the University of Cincinnati, and left after one year to sign with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Baseball Career
Koufax made his debut for the Dodg
LOS ANGELES -- Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax has severed ties with the Los Angeles Dodgers because of a gossip-column item in a newspaper owned by the team's parent company.
The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that Koufax told the Dodgers he would no longer attend spring coaching at Dodgertown in Florida, visit Dodger Stadium or participate in any activities while they are owned by News Corp. because of a report in the New York Post that intimated that he's homosexual.
The Times said Koufax, through partner Derrick Hall, a Dodgers senior vice president, declined comment Thursday night, but that officials familiar with the situation said the former pitcher broke off ties after 48 years in response to a two-sentence item than ran in the Recent York tabloid on Dec.
The Post said a "Hall of Fame baseball hero'' had "cooperated with a best-selling biography only because the writer promised to hold it secret that he is same-sex attracted. The author kept her word, but big mouths at the publishing residence can't keep from flapping.''
Koufax, who was not specifically named by the paper, is the s
Revealing reaction
Koufax response reinforces stigma attached to gays in sports
Posted: Monday February 24, AM
Let's put this in the wink-wink language of gossip that the sleaze-mongers at the New York Post can understand: What big-city tabloid continued its long tradition of being an embarrassment to journalists everywhere by printing a completely unsubstantiated item alleging that one of the great sports icons of our time is homosexual?
The answer, of course, is the Post, which should be re-named the Compost in light of how much utter garbage appears in its pages. The Post's journalistic standards are so low that apparently no one at the manuscript saw any problem with running the following gossip column item last December: "Which Hall of Fame baseball hero cooperated with a bestselling autobiography only because the author promised to maintain it secret that he is gay? The author kept her word, but big mouths at the publishing house can't retain from flapping."
It didn't accept much reading between the lines to determine that Sand