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Publication Date
2002-09-17
Pages
304
ISBN
9780060195335
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060195339
ISBN-13
9780060195335
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2237060

Product Key Features

Book Title
Sandy Koufax : a Lefty's Legacy
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Baseball / General, History, Sports
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Jane Leavy
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Trade
LCCN
2002-068722
Reviews
A baseball classic; the first in-depth reporting on the life and career of the Dodger icon.a must read., An exhaustively researched study that paints an intriguing portrait of the famously reclusive Dodger pitcher., A baseball classic; the first in-depth reporting on the life and career of the Dodger icon…a must read., "Leavy has hit it out of the park...A lot more than a biography. It's a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero's self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory...a remarkably rich portrait." -- Daniel Okrent, Time magazine "Ms. Leavy has done a dizzying amount of reporting--more than 400 interviews--and Koufax doesn't just survive the scrutiny, he emerges from it larger than ever. . . Ms. Leavy humanizes her subject even as she demythologizes him. The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed...This is an absorbing book, beautifully written." -- Jonathan Mahler, Wall Street Journal "A baseball classic; the first in-depth reporting on the life and career of the Dodger icon...a must read." -- New York Daily News "An exhaustively researched study that paints an intriguing portrait of the famously reclusive Dodger pitcher." -- Sports Illustrated "A perfect game of a book...Jane Leavy scatters the clouds of mythology to show us, after all these years, the man Koufax." -- The Sporting News
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
796.357/092 B
Synopsis
"The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed.... This is an absorbing book, beautifully written." -- Wall Street Journal "Leavy has hit it out of the park...A lot more than a biography. It's a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero's self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory... a remarkably rich portrait." -- Time The instant New York Times bestseller about the baseball legend and famously reclusive Dodgers' pitcher Sandy Koufax, from award-winning former Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy. Sandy Koufax reveals, for the first time, what drove the three-time Cy Young award winner to the pinnacle of baseball and then--just as quickly--into self-imposed exile., "The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed.... This is an absorbing book, beautifully written." --Wall Street Journal "Leavy has hit it out of the park...A lot more than a biography. It's a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero's self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory... a remarkably rich portrait." -- Time The instant New York Times bestseller about the baseball legend and famously reclusive Dodgers' pitcher Sandy Koufax, from award-winning former Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy. Sandy Koufax reveals, for the first time, what drove the three-time Cy Young award winner to the pinnacle of baseball and then--just as quickly--into self-imposed exile., In an era when too many heroes have been toppled from too many pedestals, Sandy Koufax stands apart and alone, a legend who declined his own celebrity. As a pitcher, he was sublime, the ace of baseball lore. As a human being, he aspired to be the one thing his talent and his fame wouldn't allow: a regular guy. A Brooklyn kid, he was the product of the sedate and modest fifties who came to define and dominate baseball in the sixties. In Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, former award-winning Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy delivers an uncommon baseball book, vividly re-creating the Koufax era, when presidents were believed and pitchers aspired to go the distance. He was only a teenager when Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley proclaimed him "the Great Jewish Hope" of the franchise. But it wasn't until long after the team had abandoned Brooklyn that the man became the myth. Old-fashioned in his willingness to play when he was injured and in his acute sense of responsibility to his team, Koutax answered to an authority higher than manager Walter Alston. When he refused to pitch the opening game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, he inadvertently made himself a religious icon and an irrevocably public figure. A year later, he was gone - done with baseball at age thirty. No other sports hero had retired so young, so well, or so completely. Despite Sandy Koufax's best efforts to protect his privacy, his legend has grown larger ever since. Part biography, part cultural history, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy gets as close to that legend as he will allow. Through meticulous reporting and interviews with five hundred of his friends, teammates, and opponents, Leavy penetrates the mythology to discover a man more than worthy of myth.
LC Classification Number
GV865.K67L43 2002

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  • von lhar4352
    21. Aug. 2020

    Best sports read in my lifetime!

    I am 77 years of age and this book is, no doubt, the best sports narrative I've ever read! Touches the entire life of Koufax and suggests, given a chance early in his career, he may have been the best pitcher ever in MLB history.

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  • von designerswest
    12. Mär. 2022

    great book baragian

    great book at a great price. thanks!

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  • von jjek3161_jjxg9k
    03. Aug. 2021

    You will love it

    so good I have read it over and over,the best koufax book out there

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    11. Sep. 2023

    Koufax book

    Great book to read for the baseball fan.

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    29. Apr. 2020

    Sandy Koufax

    Good read: especially if you love baseball and the Dodgers.

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