As a kid, Jane Leavy was an anomaly — a Jewish baseball fan who didn’t root for Sandy Koufax. Blame her grandmother, who lived around the corner from Yankee Stadium and bought Leavy her first baseball ...
“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 America ...
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, at Wrigley ...
Fred Wilpon is hoping Sandy Koufax has one more win in his famous left arm. The Mets’ co-owner is promising to call the Hall of Fame pitcher to testify on his behalf when Wilpon and co-owner Saul Katz ...
VERO BEACH, Fla. — Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax, whose brilliance on the mound captivated fans in the 1960s and defined the Dodgers’ greatest era in Los Angeles, has severed ties with the club in ...
Thirty-six years after Sandy Koufax retired from baseball, we still follow him around. It’s a weird converse of the Shoeless Joe Jackson story, where instead of begging him to say it ain’t so, we keep ...
Manager Jeff Torborg on Saturday defended the stance of former Dodgers teammate Sandy Koufax. Friday, Koufax said he would sever ties with the organization as long as News Corp. owned the team. The ...
In Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, we learn about the great left-handed Dodger pitcher from the sixties. He dominated batters. Almost every day during the 2010 baseball playoff season, someone has ...
You could make a documentary about Jewish ballplayers without interviewing Sandy Koufax. But why would you? That was a question facing Peter Miller, the director and a producer of “Jews and Baseball: ...
Sportswriter Jeff Passan is long past the stage in his career when he feels anxious at the prospect of interviewing a famous athlete. But Sandy Koufax was different. It was a bucket list moment for ...
Who knew we'd see another former player prepare to break his silence this week and that we'd actually be glad about it? Thankfully, the elusive Sandy Koufax is doing just that by agreeing to be the ...