As a kid, Jane Leavy was an anomaly — a Jewish baseball fan who didn’t root for Sandy Koufax. Blame her grandmother, who lived around the corner from Yankee Stadium and bought Leavy her first baseball ...

As World Series Game 3 extended into its sixth hour, many joked that Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax was warming up in the Dodgers ...

“Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy,” isn’t a typical biography of the great Dodger pitcher. In addition to charting his meteoric rise in baseball, author Jane Leavy also examines the way that America ...

On April 24, 1962, Hall-of-Famer and Los Angeles Dodgers legend Sandy Koufax set a Major League record with 18 strikeouts in a complete game. The Dodgers defeated the Chicago Cubs, 10-2, at Wrigley ...

Sportswriter Leavy describes her book as not so much a biography of a ballplayer as a social history of baseball, with the former star pitcher's career as the barometer of change. While both a preface ...

VERO BEACH, Fla. — Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax, whose brilliance on the mound captivated fans in the 1960s and defined the Dodgers’ greatest era in Los Angeles, has severed ties with the club in ...

LOS ANGELES --- Sandy Koufax was the last Dodgers pitcher to start a World Series Game 7, a game where the Hall of Famer tossed a three-hit shutout to beat the Minnesota Twins in 1965. Koufax, who has ...

Midrash is text behind the biblical text. It helps bring biblical stories to life so Jews can better engage with their religion. But Midrash, in many cases, can feel like reality. Rabbis often teach ...

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Manager Jeff Torborg on Saturday defended the stance of former Dodgers teammate Sandy Koufax. Friday, Koufax said he would sever ties with the organization as long as News Corp. owned the team. The ...

You could make a documentary about Jewish ballplayers without interviewing Sandy Koufax. But why would you? That was a question facing Peter Miller, the director and a producer of “Jews and Baseball: ...