 |
| Photo from TheSportGallery.com |
I'm 26 years old. I know the name Sandy Koufax. I like the Dodgers and watch Vin Scully's vivid descriptions on Prime Ticket. I've heard of Koufax, but I never understood just how great of a pitcher Sandy really was.
This isn't just for Dodger fans or even just baseball fans. Sandy was a very advanced BASKETBALL player, but this isn't just for sport's nuts either. Sandy was and still is an amazing man. He lives an inspirational life and Jane Leavy paints the perfect portrait of the first man to throw 4 no-hit, no-run games.
From Wikipedia:
Koufax was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family, and raised in Borough Park.[5] His parents, Evelyn and Jack Braun, divorced when he was three years old; his mother remarried when he was nine, to Irving Koufax.[6] Shortly after his mother's remarriage, the family moved to the Long Island suburb of Rockville Centre. Before tenth grade, Koufax's family moved back to the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.[7]
Koufax attended Brooklyn's Lafayette High School, where he was better known for basketball than for baseball. At the time, school sports were not available because New York's teachers were refusing to supervise extracurricular activities without monetary compensation. As an alternative, Koufax started playing basketball for a local Jewish Community Center team. Eventually, Lafayette had a basketball team; Koufax became team captain in his senior year, and ranked second in his division in scoring, with 165 points in 10 games.
0 comments:
Post a Comment