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elleng

(136,090 posts) Sun Dec 31, 2023, 08:50 PM Dec 2023

Happy 88th birthday to one of the best pitchers the game has ever seen, Sandy Koufax!

The Dodgers legend was a 4x World Series Champion, 3x Cy Young Award winner, 7x All-Star, the 1963 NL MVP and was inducted in to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.

(We named our dog after him!)

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Happy 88th birthday to one of the best pitchers the game has ever seen, Sandy Koufax! (Original Post) elleng Dec 2023 OP
He was special. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2023 #1
I probably saw his worst game ever rurallib Dec 2023 #2
'Funny,' lost to another Jewish pitcher!!! elleng Dec 2023 #5
When I was a kid I went to a Pirates game gab13by13 Dec 2023 #3
My first baseball mitt was signed by Sandy (not original of course). captain queeg Dec 2023 #4

rurallib

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2. I probably saw his worst game ever
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Sun Dec 31, 2023, 08:56 PM
Dec 2023

Dodgers-Cubs. I think it was 1963. Koufax vs. Kenny Holtzman. Koufax gave up 5 runs in the first as I recall. Didn't finish the inning. Holtzman got knocked out in the top of the second.

Other than that day, he seldom made a mistake.

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gab13by13

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3. When I was a kid I went to a Pirates game
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Sun Dec 31, 2023, 08:57 PM
Dec 2023

and Koufax was pitching for the Dodgers. In the first inning the Pirates scored 4 runs off Sandy and the manager comes out to the mound and I yell, don't take him out yet. I was a Little League pitcher. They left Koufax in the game and he went on to beat the Pirates that day.

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