Inspired by that sense of pride, Stoll set out to collect the cards of every Jewish player in baseball history — around 200 ...
Go ahead and name the last time you ran across a high-school lefthander who has a 94 MPH fastball and a hammer of a curveball, a Jewish kid whose prized possession is a Sandy Koufax baseball card ...
For many Jewish fans who collect baseball cards, the joy of opening a new pack and finding a Jewish player is second to none. That was Seymour Stoll’s experience years ago when he drew a Sandy Koufax ...
"Sandy would ... But for Koufax, violins -- bittersweet and vaguely ambiguous, like gypsy music. The impression of Koufax persists of him being the J.D. Salinger of baseball.
And a crowd of 29,139 just sitting in to see the only pitcher in baseball history [at the time] to hurl four no-hit, no-run games. He has done it four straight years, and now he caps it. On his fourth ...
(JTA) — For tuned-in baseball fans, Jeff Passan is everywhere ... There is one athlete who does: Jewish legend Sandy Koufax. “Generally speaking, when I’m talking to people, I’ll call ...
Sandy Koufax was at his best ... This was the last of Koufax’s four no-hitters, and the finest. He dazzled against the Cubs while weaving 14 strikeouts into a perfect game, the sixth in baseball’s ...
That is Max Fried of the Braves, who’s been among the most dominant pitchers in this pandemic-shortened Major League Baseball season ... he’s a big-time Sandy Koufax fan.