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 ...

Any experienced reader of baseball biographies would know that when Jane Leavy began her book about Sandy Koufax, she was already behind in the count. Strike one: most baseball biographies are about ...

Courtesy Anthony Liberatore Feb 17, 2026 38 mins ago 0 A 14-year-old Matthew Liberatore, now a left-handed starting pitcher for the Cardinals, poses with a copy of "Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy," a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

If Sandy Koufax was a young prospect today, the teams would have reams of scouting data on him leading up to the MLB Draft Thursday. But it wasn’t that way in the 1950s when Koufax was pitching at the ...

In honor and anticipation of Opening Day, I bring you Sandy Koufax, which is really all any baseball fan should need. This post mashes up two separate entries I filed two years ago about Sandy Koufax, ...