Go ahead and name the last time you ran across a high-school lefthander who has a 94 MPH fastball and a hammer of a curveball, a Jewish kid whose prized possession is a Sandy Koufax baseball card ...
Actually, he would let you look at it. And you still couldn't hit it," says Hall of Fame center fielder Willie Mays about Sandy Koufax on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. If one were to put ...
“Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy,” isn’t a typical biography of the great Dodger pitcher. In addition to charting his meteoric rise in baseball, author Jane Leavy also examines the way that ...
After two decades of reporting, can anything make him nervous? There is one athlete who does: Jewish legend Sandy Koufax. “Generally speaking, when I’m talking to people, I’ll call them by ...
On April 24, 1962, Hall-of-Famer and Los Angeles Dodgers legend Sandy Koufax set a Major League record with 18 strikeouts in a complete game. The Dodgers defeated the Chicago Cubs, 10-2 ...
On Nov. 3, 1965, Los Angeles Dodgers legend Sandy Koufax won a second Cy Young Award, two years after earning the first of his storied career. Only one pitcher in MLB won the Cy Young during that ...
Pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale turned down the Los Angeles Dodgers' "final" contract offer of $210,000 today. The two pitchers announced a month that they would negotiate their 1966 ...
Green is not the first Dodger to observe Yom Kippur in such fashion, of course. Sandy Koufax famously sat out Game 1 of the 1965 World Series. The Dodgers lost that game (Don Drysdale started in ...