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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
Sandy Koufax A Lefty's Legacy
Author: Jane Leavy
Nobody ever threw a baseball better than Sandy Koufax. He dominated the game -- and the ball, making it rise, break, sing. Then, after his best season, in 1966, he was gone, retired at age thirty, leaving behind a reputation as the game's greatest lefty and most misunderstood man. The Brooklyn boy whom the Dodgers signed as "the Great Jewish Hop...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060933296
ISBN-10: 0060933291
Publication Date: 9/1/2003
Pages: 336
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3.7 stars, based on 24 ratings
Publisher: Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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reviewed Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy on + 6 more book reviews
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A wonderful biography and great discription of the times. Anyone with the slightest interest in baseball will enjoy this book. One of the good things about it is that it is not overburded with minor details. It captures the essences of the man,the times of his youth and his great, even though short, career.
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'Unlike most biographies, Jane Leavy's absorbing look at sandy Koufax is informed neither by reverence nor resentment but by an honest appreciation of what made him different. Just as Koufax defied the norms of a media-driven culture, Leavy defies and exceeds the norms of sports biography."---Bob Costas
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buzzby avatar reviewed Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy on + 6062 more book reviews
My goodness, did every New Yorker growing up in the 50s write a book about the Dodgers?!? Where are the books about the Kansas City A's? Anyway, this is an old fashioned paean to baseball heroism, the kind I grew up with.
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I gave this book to my boyfriend who thoroughly enjoyed it. He thinks the world of Sandy Koufax and was very pleased with the book
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I'm a Phillies fan but a baseball lover, and I jumped at the chance to read a bio of the seemingly elusive Koufax. After reading this book I almost feel like I know the man personally. Jane Leavy has spun a gem with this book, and you most certainly don't need to be a Dodger fan to enjoy it.

Not being of the Jewish faith, I was still aware of the importance of the immense barriers Koufax broke down for his fellow Jews. For some he was an ace hurler. For others, a savior.

Leavy breaks down important games in Koufax's career in sharp, staccato prose resembling a crisp spring training day. She has an eye and ear for the game, and a distant respect for Sandy Koufax that he's wanted all his life.


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