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The reason? of Richard Widmark, m. Baseball fans are simply unwilling or unable to contemplate the possibility that a baseball legend might be gay. So the New York Post ran a blind item in its " Page Six " gossip column implying that baseball legend Sandy Koufax was gay. " (In this age of media conglomeration, taking this tack gets sticky, since Murdoch also owns HarperCollins, which published Koufax�s biography.)

Only after Koufax expressed his outrage � and denied rookies his training expertise � did his " outing " became a story.

The Post piece " was blatantly unfair, scandalous, and contemptible, " she said. Nothing wrong with that — but no way” (NYDN)

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New York Post apologizes for Koufax-is-gay gossip item

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The Post’s gossip columnists have apologized to Sandy Koufax and author Jane Leavy for running a Dec.

19 blind item saying the Hall of Fame pitcher “cooperated with a best-selling biography only because the author promised to keep secret that he is gay.” The “Page Six” writers say in their third column item: “Koufax himself, an intensely private man, was deeply offended by our item.

The author kept her word, but big mouths at the publishing house can�t keep from flapping. The author kept her word, but big mouths at the publishing house can't keep from flapping." Additional details in Michael Bronski, "Sandy Koufax Outing Gets Another Inning", The Phoenix, 27 February 2003. " And all his defenders back this up with the story of how Koufax, who is Jewish, refused to pitch a game in the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur.
What is curious here is that while most " outings " are done by gay people, or at least followed by a gay audience � think of the gay media coverage of Chastity Bono, Ellen DeGeneres, and George Michaels � Koufax has hardly garnered any gay attention at all.

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> Newhan on Murdoch’s firm: “It should be called Bad News Corp.” (LAT)
> Koufax author: I don’t want to profit from this unseemly tale (TCP.com)
> Gossip item controversy has enraged Dodgers officials, fans (NYDN)
> Earlier: “Koufax gay?

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The New York Daily News, the Post�s rival, even " outed " Koufax as a heterosexual ( " Koufax gay? The December 19 squib noted that 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. But at its heart, this isn�t a gay story, or even a sex story � it is a baseball story.

Was it nobody�s business?

Rosie O�Donnell turned her newly public sexual orientation into a political campaign to lobby for gay adoption and families. " The media outrage was so great that in its February 21 issue, the Post � in a surprising act of contrition � retracted the gossip and apologized to Koufax, stating, " A two-sentence blind item we ran here on Dec. 19 about a �Hall of Fame baseball hero� has sparked a series of unfortunate consequences for which we are very sorry....

The author has denied making any deal with Koufax and called our item �erroneous.� We apologize to both Koufax and Leavy for getting it wrong.