Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy

Leavy, Jane

ISBN 10: 0060569441 ISBN 13: 9780060569440

Casa editrice: Harperaudio, 2003

Riassunto

A portrait of the distinguished baseball pitcher is based on more than four hundred interviews with friends, teammates, and opponents and describes his atypical style, famous 1965 win against the Cubs, and refusal to participate in a World Series opening game that fell on a Jewish high holy day.

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L'autore:

Jane Leavy, award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post, is author of the New York Times bestsellers Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, and the comic novel Squeeze Play. She lives in Washington, D.C. and Truro, Massachusetts.

p>Charley Steiner has worked as an anchor for ESPN's SportsCenter and as a play-by-play commentator for Major League Baseball on both ESPN and ESPN Radio. Prior to working at ESPN, Steiner handled morning sports reports and play-by-play for the New York Jets at WABC Radio in New York City. He currently teams with John Sterling to broadcast New York Yankees baseball on WABC-AM.

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Sandy Koufax was the consummate pitcher: elegant, dominant, unsurpassed. He defined and distinguished himself by what he did on the baseball field and what he refused to do. He challenged batters and stereotypes. On the evening of September 9, 1965, he pitched a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs. Less than a month later, he achieved another kind of perfection by refusing to pitch the opening game of the World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Until then, he was a ballplayer, perhaps the greatest lefthander of all time. Forever after, he would be a symbol, the one thing he never wanted to be.

A year later, he was gone -- done with baseball at age thirty. No other sports hero retired so young, so well, or so completely. Opting out of celebrity, refusing to cannibalize himself for profit, he is described by one former Dodger "as the most misunderstood man in baseball." Part biography and part cultural history, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy gets as close to the legend as he will allow.

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• Editore: Harperaudio
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060569441
• ISBN 13: 9780060569440
• Rilegatura: Audio Cassetta