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Publisher: HarperCollins e-books; Reissue edition (October 13, 2009)
Publication Date: October 13, 2009
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The memory remains. Coming home from school in 1962, obsessed with baseball seemingly since birth, I turned on the television to see how my woeful Cubs were doing. A never-was first baseman named Moe Moehardt at the plate, who never had even 50 plate appearances in the Big Show. The count was one ball, two strikes, two out,bottom of the 9th. I saw only one pitch. Koufax fires a fastball seemingly meant to cross the plate at the batter's thighs. But it kept rising skyward. By the time lumber whiffed air, the fastball had blazed into the catcher's mitt somewhere above the collarbone. Game over. Dodgers and Koufax win.Living in Chicago, with two teams in the major leagues, I have seen thousands of games on television and in person, and many more thousands of pitchers. Never have I seen a pitch like that. Not from powerful Nolan Ryan, not from the wiry, young Roger Clemens, not from Randy Johnson, nor the coltish, drug-free Doc Gooden, nor the ultimately tragic J.R. Richard. Not even from the angriest fireballer to ever take the mound, Bob Gibson. Nobody. And Koufax was like me Jewish and a lefty, although I couldn't play worth a darn. How could you not admire him?The book creates an understanding of how Koufax, after half a career of mediocrity, became great for the last six years of his shortened tenure on the mound, but at remarkable physical cost, especially 1964-66. Tommy John surgery was a decade away from the year he retired at 30 because of arthritis, and other medical techniques like arthroscopic surgery even further down the line. Nobody had ever heard about pitch counts. The ridiculous term "quality start," 6 innings giving up 3 or less runs, had thankfully not become part of baseball lingo. Starting pitchers were part of four-man rotations, not five. And the statistics he piled up during those six years are astonishing. The spectacular strikeout totals, the preternatural strikeout to walk ratios, 11 and 3 in games ending in 1-0 scores, all done while his arm and body burned from an analgesic, now outlawed in the U.S. all to relieve the pain in his withering arm.The author, Jane Leavy, is less successful in what I think is her main goal, attempting to convey the importance of Koufax to Jews. She makes a fuss over Koufax's decision not to pitch the first game of the 1965 World Series because in conflicted with Yom Kippur. But every Jew, religious or like Koufax, non-religious, took off from work on the Day of Atonement. He never even entered a synagogue that day. And it's not as if the Dodgers had to reach into the back of the bullpen for a replacement. They started Don Drysdale. He's in the Hall of Fame, too. So Sandy pitched Game 2. So what?Sure, Jewish kids idolized the Dodger lefty. When you feel you are on the outside looking in, you naturally have warm feelings for a hero who seemingly overcame prejudice or oppression, real or imagined. Italian kids worshipped Joe DiMaggio, not brothers Vince or Dom. An entire race consigned to what was then second class citizenship, placed Jackie Robinson on a pedestal of staggering heights. I doubt anybody would notice if the merely adequate Jason Marquis, had he pitched in the 1960's, skipped his turn on Yom Kipper.There is nothing really unusual about Koufax off the field. He is not reclusive, just quietly private, living his life without fanfare. Unlike Drysdale, who craved the spotlight when he played and seemed to be on centerstage even when he became a broadcaster, Koufax feels no need to ever be the center of attention. At his root, he is still the shy kid from Brooklyn. In an age where public figures and celebrities cannot overcome the urge to announce on Twitter with whom they are bouncing on the bedsprings, Sandy always kept his mouth shut about such things. Do we really have to know that Matt Kemp once cuddled with some singer named Brianna? What has that got do to with taking an outside pitch the other way? Koufax is old school. Non-baseball business is only his business. Leavy respects this. She got just a nodding acknowledgement from her subject, did not interview his two ex-wives, and didn't try to make an open book of Sandy's dating habits. Perhaps this was a sign of the author's understanding of Sandy's sense of dignity and decency.Great athletes robbed of their prime and forced to retire because of illness or injury have to make a significant and early adjustment in their lives. Some, like Gale Sayers, feel uncertainty for a while, and then find other avenues in which to succeed. Others, like Kirby Puckett live until their end in a dark abyss, forever wrapped in victimhood, life stolen from them on the field. When Koufax announced his retirement, unable to bend his left elbow, he said he just wanted to have a normal life. He's had it. Good for him.
Pivotal moments of Sandy Koufax's career provide the foundation for this non-linear narrative, and insights from numerous people that interacted with him or were positively influenced by his achievements confirms his high esteem. The disjointed structure of the book made it a somewhat laborious read and likely caused unnecessary repetition, which occurred with the Koufax / Drysdale salary holdout, the John Roseboro and Juan Marichal incident etc. The work nevertheless explores Koufax respectfully and celebrates all that is outstanding about him.Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Baseball Author
As my teenage years coincided beautifully with Sandy Koufax's best years, it was a treat to read the 'behind-the-scenes' details this book provides that were simply not available to fans back then.This book captures elegantly the Koufax aura that existed at the time; young fans like myself were in awe of him; older fans realized how rare was his talent; and even his contemporaries on the diamond still carry memories of his incredible impact.I personally went to buy Koufax's 1966 biography, which Sandy kindly autographed for me at Shillito's department store in Cincinnati, then went to see him beat the Reds that night in what turned out to be his final start in Cincinnati. I couldn't have known, until reading this book, just how tender his arm must have been on that September day, or that he knew even then that he was planning to retire only a month later. I still have the book, with his kind note addressed to me on the inside cover.But beyond personal reasons, I liked the book for its interesting account of Koufax the man, breaking down the myth of the reclusive former superstar, while capturing the essence of his fun-loving and kind nature.The book also revealed the intensely competitive nature of Koufax the athlete. Like many athletes of his day, he sacrificed his body, playing through intense pain in order to keep himself, and the Dodgers, in the game - or in the World Series. But in his case, the results had so much more of an impact on the game than any other single player in the lineup possibly could have.All of this and more comes out in this very inside look at a man who gave baseball all he had, then proceeded to live out the rest of his life with the same intensity, returning to the sport when it suited him simply because he loved the game, the players and being able to satisfy some of the public curiosity that inevitably would build up over years and decades. He liked being out in public, but he liked his privacy, just as we all do.Finally, for those who remember the role his Jewishness played in the public perception of him, we find in this book some very rich anecdotal material about this side of Sandy Koufax. The book would not have been the same without it, and the topic is well-covered. I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in this unusual man's life and career accomplishments.
Author Jane Leavy has succeeded in writing a baseball biography unlike any of the many others I've read. Her prose reads like a novel, as she weaves a tale about far more than Koufax the baseball player. We're treated to fascinating insights into the cultural changes taking place from post WWII to the end of the twentieth century.Along the way, we learn about the evolution of race relations, the role of media and the impacts of celebrity. Opening to page one, I knew well beforehand how great a pitcher Sandy Koufax had been. Afterward, I felt like I knew Koufax the man - who so often is described as knowable.
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