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Koufax's dominance was short but sweet
At nine, his mother Evelyn remarried and he took the name of his stepfather, attorney Irving Koufax. Sandy grew up playing sports in Jewish community clubs and schoolyards in postwar Brooklyn ...
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Sandy Koufax famously didn’t pitch on Yom Kippur in 1965. But did he go to synagogue?
If Daniel Schloff’s family had been on time to Yom Kippur morning services in 1965, he may have never encountered Sandy Koufax ... from 2012 to 2021 and a sports buff, wrote in 2020 that ...
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Sandy Koufax honored with a statue at Dodger Stadium
The ceremony highlighted Koufax’s famous decision to sit out a World Series start in 1965 to observe Yom Kippur. LOS ANGELES (JTA) — For Jewish sports fans around the world, Sandy Koufax has ...
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Listen to legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully’s classic call of Sandy Koufax’s perfect game
(JTA) — In the pantheon of beloved sports broadcasters ... Famer covered the entire career of Jewish superstar pitcher Sandy Koufax. Koufax played for the Dodgers first in Brooklyn and then ...