Author : Sandy Koufax
Publisher : Viking
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Sandy Koufax tells how he became a famous pitcher, from his early days as a wild youngster to his highly successful years with the Dodgers.
Author : Jane Leavy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0061753505
“Leavy has hit it out of the park…A lot more than a biography. It’s a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero’s self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory… a remarkably rich portrait.” — Time The New York Times bestseller about the baseball legend and famously reclusive Dodgers’ pitcher Sandy Koufax, from award-winning former Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy. Sandy Koufax reveals, for the first time, what drove the three-time Cy Young award winner to the pinnacle of baseball and then—just as quickly—into self-imposed exile.
Author : Jonah Winter
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : 9780375837388
Biography, told from the viewpoint of an old-timer, tells us what made Sandy Koufax so amazing.
Author : Edward Gruver
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1589796306
This book chronicles his turbulent life and focuses on the reverential mystique that envelopes the Los Angeles Dodger even this day.
Author : Jon Weisman
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1641250100
The Los Angeles Dodgers are one of the most storied franchises in all of sports, with enduring legacies both on and off the diamond. Chief among the hallmarks of the organization is an unparalleled pitching dominance; Dodger blue and white brings to mind brilliance on the mound and the Cy Young Awards that followed. In Brothers in Arms: Koufax, Kershaw, and the Dodgers' Extraordinary Pitching Tradition, acclaimed Dodgers writer Jon Weisman explores the organization's rich pitching history, from Koufax and Drysdale to Valenzuela and Hershiser, to the sublime Clayton Kershaw. Weisman delves deep into this lineage of excellence, interviewing both the legends that toed the rubber and the teammates, coaches, and personalities that witnessed their genius.
Author : Jay Jaffe
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250071216
The Cooperstown Casebook by Jay Jaffe provides a definitive guide to the greatest players in baseball history, and the Hall of Fame.
Author : Brian M. Endsley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1476618941
This is the story of the L.A. Dodgers' volatile fortunes during Sandy Koufax's transformation from a wild left-hander with a losing record on the verge of quitting the game, to an artist with exquisite control of the baseball--a veritable Mozart on the mound. From the Dodgers' sudden plunge into the baseball wilderness in 1960, to their return to pennant contention in Koufax's breakout year of 1961, through their catastrophic 1962 season--precipitated by Koufax's freak midseason finger injury--to their redemption in 1963 with their second World Championship on the West Coast, the narrative is set against the backdrop of John F. Kennedy's fleeting New Frontier presidency.
Author : Arnold Hano
Publisher :
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 1966
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Percy Leed
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1728414784
Sandy Koufax went from dreaming of playing in the NBA to pitching perfect games for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Learn how the left-handed Koufax honed his throwing arm, brought the Dodgers a World Series, and more.
Author : David Kaufman
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1611683149
A lively look at four major Jewish celebrities of early 1960s America, who together made their mark on both American culture and Jewish identity
