Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy - Softcover

Leavy, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060933291 ISBN 13: 9780060933296

Publisher: Perennial, 2003

Synopsis

A portrait of the distinguished baseball pitcher is based on more than four hundred interviews with friends, teammates, and opponents and describes his atypical style, famous 1965 win against the Cubs, and refusal to participate in a World Series opening game that fell on a Jewish high holy day. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.

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Review:

An exhaustively researched study that paints an intriguing portrait of the famously reclusive Dodger pitcher. --Sports Illustrated"

From the Back Cover:

Nobody ever threw a baseball better than Sandy Koufax. He dominated the game -- and the ball, making it rise, break, sing. Then, after his best season, in 1966, he was gone, retired at age thirty, leaving behind a reputation as the game's greatest lefty and most misunderstood man. The Brooklyn boy whom the Dodgers signed as "the Great Jewish Hope" will forever be known for his refusal to pitch the opening game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur. Forty years later, Koufax stands apart and alone, a legend who declines his own celebrity. In Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, Jane Leavy dispels the mystery to discover a man more than worthy of the myth.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060933291
• ISBN 13: 9780060933296
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336