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 ...

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 ...

"Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy" by Jane Leavy (HarperCollins, $23.95). On Sept. 9, 1965, Sandy Koufax pitched a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs. Less than a month later, the opening game of the ...

Sportswriter Leavy describes her book as not so much a biography of a ballplayer as a social history of baseball, with the former star pitcher's career as the barometer of change. While both a preface ...

As World Series Game 3 extended into its sixth hour, many joked that Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax was warming up in the Dodgers' bullpen.

These days, baseball is the sport that loosely binds Sandy Koufax, Hall of Fame lefty and author of one of the greatest curveballs anyone has ever seen, and Fred Wilpon, owner and anti-steward of the ...

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: ...

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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 ...

The New York Post apologized to Sandy Koufax and retracted a gossip column item that caused the Hall of Fame pitcher to end his 48-year relationship with the Dodgers. The Post and the Dodgers are both ...