03921cam a22005054a 4500 94585 20230410143458.0 020410s2002 nyua 001 0beng 2002068722 (OCoLC)ocm49611158 DLC DLC BAKER XY4 BTCTA YDXCP OTP IG# 0060195339 9780060195335 NZ1 6866232 AU@ 000023507110 IG# 9780060195335 (OCoLC)49611158 pcc n-us--- 14aGV 865bL439s 2002 796.357 B 21 GRAL Leavy, Jane. Sandy Koufax : a lefty's legacy / Jane Leavy. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2002. xxii, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index. Preface: Poet and the pitcher -- Warming up -- Pregame show -- When Sandy touched the sky -- First inning -- Accidental pitcher -- Second inning -- Greenhorn -- Third inning -- To be young and wild -- Fourth inning -- 1961 -- Fifth inning -- When we were young -- Sixth inning -- Pulling teeth -- Seventh inning -- King of the Jews -- Eight inning -- Warning shot -- Ninth inning -- Sweet sorrow -- Epilogue: After life -- Appendix -- Career statistics -- Acknowledgments -- Index. In an era when too many heroes have been toppled from too many pedestals, Sandy Koufax stands apart and alone, a legend who declined his own celebrity. As a pitcher, he was sublime, the ace of baseball lore. As a human being, he aspired to be the one thing his talent and his fame wouldn't allow: a regular guy. A Brooklyn kid, he was the product of the sedate and modest fifties who came to define and dominate baseball in the sixties. In Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, former award-winning Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy delivers an uncommon baseball book, vividly re-creating the Koufax era, when presidents were believed and pitchers aspired to go the distance. He was only a teenager when Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley proclaimed him "the Great Jewish Hope" of the franchise. But it wasn't until long after the team had abandoned Brooklyn that the man became the myth. Old-fashioned in his willingness to play when he was injured and in his acute sense of responsibility to his team, Koutax answered to an authority higher than manager Walter Alston. When he refused to pitch the opening game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, he inadvertently made himself a religious icon and an irrevocably public figure. A year later, he was gone -- done with baseball at age thirty. No other sports hero had retired so young, so well, or so completely. Despite Sandy Koufax's best efforts to protect his privacy, his legend has grown larger ever since. Part biography, part cultural history, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy gets as close to that legend as he will allow. Through meticulous reporting and interviews with five hundred of his friends, teammates, and opponents, Leavy penetrates the mythology to discover a man more than worthy of myth. Koufax, Sandy, 1935- Baseball players United States Biography. Primera Jornada de Catalogación. Jugadores de béisbol Estados Unidos Biografías . Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc043/2002068722.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0910/2002068722-b.html Baker & Taylor BKTY 23.95 17.96 0060195339 0003869980 active Baker and Taylor BTCP 2002068722 YBP Library Services YANK 1838196 Ingram INGR 9780060195335 lcc bk C0 DRFGD nc 102455 102455 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 0 GV 865 L439s 2002 00000088528 2019-01-21 00:00:00 1 2019-01-21 bk