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    Sanford Koufax (/ˈkoʊfæks/; né Braun; born December 30, 1935), nicknamed "the Left Arm of God", is an American former baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons...
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    1965, Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game in the National League against the Chicago Cubs at Dodger Stadium. Koufax became...
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    Los Angeles 1962 – Don Drysdale (MLB) 1963 – Sandy Koufax (MLB) 1965 – Sandy Koufax (MLB) 1966 – Sandy Koufax (MLB) 1974 – Mike Marshall 1981 – Fernando...
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    new stadium center main entrance, and the commission of a statue of Sandy Koufax which was to be unveiled next to the statue of Robinson. While the renovations...
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    years, and their third in franchise history. Dodgers starting pitchers Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, and Johnny Podres, and ace reliever Ron Perranoski combined...
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  • The Sandy Koufax Monument was unveiled outside the centerfield plaze entrance of Dodger Stadium on June 18, 2022. The bronze statue, created by sculptor...
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    inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame: Cy Young, Addie Joss, Jim Bunning, Sandy Koufax, Catfish Hunter, Randy Johnson, and Roy Halladay. David Cone won the...
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    Baseball season, from February 28 to March 30, future Hall of Famers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, star pitchers for the Los Angeles Dodgers, staged a...
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  • is best remembered for the heroics of Sandy Koufax, who was named the World Series Most Valuable Player. Koufax did not pitch in Game 1, as it fell on...
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    Spahn became the first left-handed pitcher to win the award. In 1963, Sandy Koufax became the first pitcher to win the award in a unanimous vote; two years...
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    keep them off balance. Often overshadowed by teammate and Dodgers ace Sandy Koufax, Drysdale nevertheless made his own mark, winning the Cy Young Award...
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  • Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy is a non-fiction book by sportswriter Jane Leavy. Published by HarperCollins in 2002, the book follows the career trajectory...
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  • Mickey Mantle Baseball 15s Ken Griffey Jr Baseball 14U Sandy Koufax Baseball 13s Sandy Koufax 13S Baseball 12U Pee Wee Reese Baseball 11s Gil Hodges Baseball...
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  • Bobby Shantz in 1952 and Johnny Antonelli in 1954 as well as Sandy Koufax in 1963. Koufax was first described as having won the Pitching Triple Crown in...
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  • is best known for his role in the Koufax–Drysdale holdout. At the time, he was the business manager for Sandy Koufax, star pitcher of the Los Angeles Dodgers...
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    League record. Ryan, Pedro Martínez, Randy Johnson, Trevor Hoffman, and Sandy Koufax are the only five pitchers inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame who...
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  • pitching compared to the Dodgers and their star hurlers Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax, Baltimore pitching allowed only two runs in the entire series and ended...
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    July 29, 1908 18 – Bob Feller, October 2, 1938. Matched by: Sandy Koufax, August 31, 1959 Koufax again, April 24, 1962 Don Wilson, July 14, 1968 Ron Guidry...
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    abuse and went on to become stars. Two such players, Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax, were both elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and are widely considered...
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    and earn multiple All-Star selections; the others are Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax, Tim Lincecum and former teammate Max Scherzer. Additionally, Verlander...
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  • Giants), but were swept by the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. Sandy Koufax became the first pitcher to win three Cy Young Awards in a career. The...
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  • about baseball and is best known for her biographies on baseball greats Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle, and Babe Ruth. Leavy was born into a Jewish family on...
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    that day. The namesake of the curse comes from Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax who famously sat out Game 1 of the 1965 World Series to mark Yom Kippur...
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    School in Brooklyn, where he was responsible for getting his friend, Sandy Koufax, to join the baseball team. Wilpon was a big fan of baseball and pitched...
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    (1967). Hendley is best known for being the losing pitcher on the day Sandy Koufax threw his perfect game. He was nearly as brilliant, having a no-hitter...
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    full fasting and asceticism. The most famous example is baseball player Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers who refused to pitch Game 1 of the 1965 World...
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    overshadowed by his contemporaries Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson; in each of Marichal's four best seasons, either Koufax or Gibson won the Cy Young Award...
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    The most famous example of this phenomenon is Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers, who refused to play on...
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    fifth no-hitter with the Houston Astros on September 26, 1981, broke Sandy Koufax's previous record. His sixth and seventh no-hitters came with the Texas...
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