Go ahead and name the last time you ran across a high-school lefthander who has a 94 MPH fastball and a hammer of a curveball, a Jewish kid whose prized possession is a Sandy Koufax baseball card ...

At nine, his mother Evelyn remarried and he took the name of his stepfather, attorney Irving Koufax. Sandy grew up playing sports in Jewish community clubs and schoolyards in postwar Brooklyn ...

“Sandy, one day I hope I can impact someone ... baseball at Lafayette High School in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn. Koufax thanked various coaches and teammates, paying special tribute ...

299 with 30 homers and 107 RBI. When the Brooklyn Dodgers, looking for a Jewish player, signed Sandy Koufax, team owner Walter O’Malley said that he hoped Koufax could be as good as Hank ...

On Nov. 3, 1965, Los Angeles Dodgers legend Sandy Koufax won a second Cy ... Over 12 combined seasons spent with Brooklyn and Los Angeles, Koufax finished his career 165-87 with a 2.76 ERA.

Jeff Torborg, the former catcher who caught Sandy Koufax’s perfect game and was ... who was 16 years old when he made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1944, died in Florida on Wednesday ...

Gil Hodges and Sandy Koufax are among players responsible for ... Hodges spent 16 seasons with the Dodgers organization, ...