As a kid, Jane Leavy was an anomaly — a Jewish baseball fan who didn’t root for Sandy Koufax. Blame her grandmother, who lived around the corner from Yankee Stadium and bought Leavy her first baseball ...

On April 24, 1962, Hall-of-Famer and Los Angeles Dodgers legend Sandy Koufax set a Major League record with 18 strikeouts in a complete game. The Dodgers defeated the Chicago Cubs, 10-2, at Wrigley ...

For many Jews, Yom Kippur is our most meaningful holiday. There is the haunting melody of Kol Nidre, the poignancy of Yizkor, the elation of breaking the fast with friends and family, and, for some of ...

You could make a documentary about Jewish ballplayers without interviewing Sandy Koufax. But why would you? That was a question facing Peter Miller, the director and a producer of “Jews and Baseball: ...

It is Dec. 30, 2013, meaning that Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax was born exactly 78 years ago today. Injury forced his retirement following the 1966 season, when Koufax was only 30, but he packed ...

Catching up with the baseball legend, as the 50th anniversary of his iconic Yom Kippur day off approaches. An exclusive Jewish Week interview. “I can’t picture people talking about me 50 years from ...

Sportswriter Leavy describes her book as not so much a biography of a ballplayer as a social history of baseball, with the former star pitcher's career as the barometer of change. While both a preface ...

If Sandy Koufax was a young prospect today, the teams would have reams of scouting data on him leading up to the MLB Draft Thursday. But it wasn’t that way in the 1950s when Koufax was pitching at the ...