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 ...

"Sandy would strike me out two or three times ... The impression of Koufax persists of him being the J.D. Salinger of baseball. Koufax was an elegant craftsman, brilliant to the extreme in the ...

Game 1 was that day, and Koufax, the best pitcher in baseball and possibly of all time ... that day or anywhere else,” she wrote in “Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy.” ...

(JTA) — For tuned-in baseball fans, Jeff Passan is everywhere ... There is one athlete who does: Jewish legend Sandy Koufax. “Generally speaking, when I’m talking to people, I’ll call ...

On April 24, 1962, Hall-of-Famer and Los Angeles Dodgers legend Sandy Koufax set a Major ... where he starred on the basketball and baseball teams as a senior. Koufax enrolled to the University ...

Jeff Torborg, the Dodgers catcher who caught Sandy Koufax's perfect game in 1965 and was a manager of the year with the ...