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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060195339
ISBN-139780060195335
eBay Product ID (ePID)2237060
Product Key Features
Book TitleSandy Koufax : a Lefty's Legacy
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicBaseball / General, History, Sports
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJane Leavy
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight17.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-068722
ReviewsA 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 Edition21
Dewey Decimal796.357/092 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 NumberGV865.K67L43 2002
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- 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.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 12. Mär. 2022
great book baragian
great book at a great price. thanks!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 03. Aug. 2021
You will love it
so good I have read it over and over,the best koufax book out thereBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 11. Sep. 2023
Koufax book
Great book to read for the baseball fan.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 29. Apr. 2020
Sandy Koufax
Good read: especially if you love baseball and the Dodgers.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 30. Okt. 2019
Easy and fascinating read!
Good sports book! I like Baseball!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 19. Okt. 2021
Sandy Koufax G.O.A.T.
All Dodger fans will like this book.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 18. Aug. 2024
Excellent biography
Jane Leavy is an excellent biographer. This is a compelling biography of Sandy Koufax. Highly recommended.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 23. Mai. 2019
Sandy Kopufax
timely arrival; excellent condition...previous use undetectable.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 01. Feb. 2024
Sandy Koufax
Good biographyBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
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