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Former MLB Player Mike Piazza: No, Really, I'm Not Gay

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The baseball player refutes rumors from the 2000s.

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Mike Piazza, a former catcher for the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers, has released a new memoir that includes a statement affirming his heterosexuality.

Aside from casting off accusations of illegal performance-enchancing drugs, Piazza claims rumors of his homosexuality from the early 2000s were untrue.

"The whole episode was such a strange, incredible phenomenon," he says, according to the memoir, which excerpted in the New York Post. "I still don't get it. I don't know where the rumor came from, although I've heard many theories, including one that I suppose makes the most sense to me, involving a former teammate and his agent."

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