Sandy grew up playing sports in Jewish community clubs and schoolyards in postwar Brooklyn ... Brooklyn Dodgers that winter for a $14,000 bonus. Under the prevailing bonus rules, Koufax had ...

On Nov. 3, 1965, Los Angeles Dodgers legend Sandy Koufax won a second Cy ... Over 12 combined seasons spent with Brooklyn and Los Angeles, Koufax finished his career 165-87 with a 2.76 ERA.

Go ahead and name the last time you ran across a high-school lefthander who has a 94 MPH fastball and a hammer of a curveball, a Jewish kid whose prized possession is a Sandy Koufax baseball card ...

Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax, a 3-time Cy Young Award winner and 4-time World Series champion, retires on November 18, 1966 due to chronic arthritis in his pitching arm.