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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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    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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    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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    keep them off balance. Often overshadowed by teammate and Dodgers ace Sandy Koufax, Drysdale was a dominant pitcher in his own right, winning the Cy Young...
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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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  • 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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    Johnny Antonelli of the New York Giants in 1954 and also by Sandy Koufax in 1963. Koufax was first described as having won the Pitching Triple Crown in...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    (1901–present) is 383 strikeouts, held by Nolan Ryan, one better than Sandy Koufax's 382. For 55 years, Walter Johnson held the career strikeout record,...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Koufax is the Yiddish form of the name Kovács, meaning "blacksmith". It may refer to: Sandy Koufax (born 1935), Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher...
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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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    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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    Archived from the original on June 6, 2012. Retrieved September 5, 2010. "Sandy Koufax Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC...
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    Ryan holds the record for most no-hitters in a career, with seven. Sandy Koufax is second on the list with four no-hitters. The first black pitcher to...
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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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    Heath Widmark (born July 25, 1945), who later married baseball legend Sandy Koufax in January 1969, divorcing in 1982. Jean Hazlewood died of Alzheimer's...
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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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    Series and a Japan Series MVP. Four players have won the award twice: Sandy Koufax (1963, 1965), Bob Gibson (1964, 1967), Jackson (1973, 1977), and Corey...
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