Sandy koufax gay

The sports world seems to be quite divided on Michael Sam coming out of the closet. My take; a total brave and ballsy move on his part. Sam showed the NFL and the nature in general that he is a young man of high courage and integrity. I’m not saying that because he’s gay. I’m saying that because he came out before he got paid, before he got drafted. Unfortunately, the consensus is that this is going to bruise his draft position and future earnings greatly. That is not only quite possible, but quite probable. That’s why I admire him for doing it. Sam in essence said. This is who I am, this is what you get. I have to esteem that. He’s an athlete being accurate to himself and to his future team and fans upfront. There had to be a first. That’s him. But he’s not the first homosexual NFL player. He’s the first to be honest about it before or during his career. Jerry Smith and Esera Tuaolo predate Sam as does I suspect dozens, if not more, closeted players in pro sports right now and countless more over the NFL’s history. It had to occur sometime. But Sam will be the first ope

I've been calling the Mets, their fans, and their organization variations of "stupid" for over 30 years. But I figured, at the least, that Fred Wilpon was a smart businessman.

I surmise he should've taken more counsel from his old friend Sandy Koufax than from his more recent friend Bernie Madoff.

Now 75 and living in Florida, the scintillating pitcher for the 1960s Los Angeles Dodgers (he arrived with them in his native Brooklyn but didn't get straightened out until after the move) was a classmate of Wilpon's at Lafayette High School, in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, between Bay Ridge and Brighton Beach. Due to poor recent performance by its student body, the school has been victim for closing by the Mayor Bloomberg-controlled Board of Education, but at yet remains open.

Talk-show host Larry King, then still using his birth name of Lawrence Zieger, also attended the college, graduating two years ahead of Koufax and Wilpon. The educational facility, which opened in 1939, has produced more Major League Baseball players than any other, 21. They include the brothers Bob and Ken Aspromonte (in 1970, Bob became the last remaining active former Brooklyn Dodger), Met legend John Franco, not-so

BEHIND THE MASK-MY DOUBLE LIFE IN BASEBALL
by Alan Steinberg & Dave Pallone

In the recent months, there had been chat of baseball and homosexuality. First there were the rumors that Mike Piazza of the Mets was going to come out of the closet, but Piazza denied any of it, and the matter was dropped for the most part, except for the judgments of several players on the subject, pro and con. Then the Sandy Koufax biography was released, and rumors of his supposed homosexuality began to emerge, but that was soon create to be inaccurate as all engaged parties denied anything of the sort. And recently, a Broadway play called Coming Out (which is about a star baseball player admitting his homosexuality) has become a critically acclaimed achievement in its run.

However, few people emotionally attached in the National Pastime has stepped forward to accept "the love that dares not say its name". Utility outfielders Bill Bean and Glenn Burke (who sadly died of AIDS several years ago) possess been the only players to go out who have admitted to being queer , and they hold recounted stories of being held assist because of this. The fact that their batting averages may have held them back

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 workout 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 Upload that intimated that he's homosexual.

The Times said Koufax, through friend 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 New York tabloid on Dec. 19.

The Post said a "Hall of Fame baseball hero'' had "cooperated with a best-selling biography only because the author promised to keep it secret that he is gay. The author kept her pos, but big mouths at the publishing house can't keep from flapping.''

Koufax, who was not specifically named by the manuscript, is the subject of Jane Leavy's biography, "Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy,'' published in