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 ...

Midrash is text behind the biblical text. It helps bring biblical stories to life so Jews can better engage with their religion. But Midrash, in many cases, can feel like reality. Rabbis often teach ...

VERO BEACH, Fla. — Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax officially ended his yearlong boycott of the Dodgers with an appearance Friday at Dodgertown. Koufax spoke with reporters, commenting for the first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...