“Sandy Koufax was a Jewish guy playing baseball ... and the team’s best hitter (he’s hitting .440 with 13 home runs and 70 RBI in his career), compares with any of them.

Actually, he would let you look at it. And you still couldn't hit it," says Hall of Fame center fielder Willie Mays about Sandy Koufax on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. If one were to put ...

We spoke to a man who swears he sat behind the legendary pitcher at Temple of Aaron in Minnesota. If Daniel Schloff’s family had been on time to Yom Kippur morning services in 1965, he may have ...

The ceremony highlighted Koufax’s famous decision to sit out a World Series start in 1965 to observe Yom Kippur. LOS ANGELES (JTA) — For Jewish sports fans around the world, Sandy Koufax has ...

On Oct. 14, 1965, Sandy Koufax led the Los Angeles Dodgers to a Game 7 victory against the Minnesota Twins in the World ...

Pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale turned down the Los Angeles Dodgers' "final" contract offer of $210,000 today. The two pitchers announced a month that they would negotiate their 1966 ...