Sometime around the 16th inning of last night’s marathon World Series game, Dodger manager Dave Roberts admitted to a Fox ...
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 dominated baseball like no other player. He won three Cy Young Awards and led the Dodgers to four World Series titles. In 1966, chronic arthritis forced him to retire at 30, but he stayed ...
"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 ...
I literally have attended more than 1,000 baseball games as a fan, ballpark vendor and longtime sportswriter. Yet if I could relive one of them again, I would go back to the game for which I have no ...
Howie Rose expressed his displeasure over Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sitting in front of Los Angeles Dodgers legend Sandy ...
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 ...
Dodgers reliever Will Klein experienced what had to have been the best night of his professional life in Game 3 of the World ...