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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax threw out the first pitch at Tuesday night's 86th Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Koufax threw the first pitch to Johnny Bench. Both were part of Greatest Living ...

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers appeared satisfied to stand in line for an autograph or photo with Tommy Lasorda, or to watch Clayton Kershaw field bunts, or to see Andre Ethier play ...

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 ...

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: ...

PORT ST. LUCIE – It is a familiar, even comforting sight at the Mets‘ spring training complex: Sandy Koufax strolling from one field to the next, sharing pitching wisdom and drawing a Pied Piper ...

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 ...