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 ...

Of the several hundred baseball books I’ve ingested over too many decades, very few can match “Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy” by Jane Leavy ($23.95, HarperCollins, 304 pages, illus.) for insight and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...