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I saw Sandy Koufax pitch once during his career. It was on August 8, 1964, in Milwaukee against the Braves. My memory of that game is Sandy Koufax diving back into second base on a pickoff attempt. When he reached third base, he was twirling his left arm around. Shortly thereafter he received the diagnosis of arthritis in his left elbow. Koufax was built with huge muscles in his back and arms and this very build made it possible for him to throw as well as he did, but it also meant he was due to break down earlier. Sports medicine was still in the future and pitchers pitched until they were worn out and then the owners got somebody else. Pitchers were disposable and since players weren't paid very much no attempt was made to protect them. Sandy had a contentious relationship with manager Walter Alston who, for whatever reason, wouldn't pitch Koufax early in his career even in years the Dodgers weren't involved in any pennant race. Pitchers weren't placed on pitch counts during the 1960's and there were seasons when Koufax logged over 300 innings and pitchers pitched every fourth day. Can you imagine pitching a complete game during spring training? Where was the common sense of managers during this time? Think about this for a minute. The total Dodger payroll for the fifteen years Buzzie Bavasi was general manager equals Kevin Brown's $15 million annual salary. When Koufax pitched his perfect game against the Cubs, Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley let the moths fly out of his wallet and gave Sandy a $500 raise. Prior to the start of the 7th game of the 1965 World Series against the Twins the Dodgers had a meeting in which Manager Walter Alston announced to the team who would start the game on the mound. Dick Tracewski remembers Alston saying, "We're going to start the left-hander. After that we have Drysdale and Perranoski in the bullpen." Tracewski noted that Sandy felt he should have called him by name instead of simply referring to him as "the left-hander." I agree. It appears that Alston wanted to maintain that distant relationship he had with Sandy. Many people consider Koufax somewhat of a recluse, but he shows up at Dodger fantasy camps, Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, and funerals of former teammates such as Joe Black and Pee Wee Reese. A prize possession of Cubs' pitcher Bob Hendley, who was Sandy's pitching opponent in the perfect game and who gave up only one hit himself and lost 1-0, is a baseball signed by Koufax with the simple inscription, "What a game." The book is really two stories alternating between the innings of the perfect game and Sandy's career. If you're a sports fan, this book should have a permanent place in your bookcase.
The memory remains. Coming home from school in 1962, obsessed with baseball seemingly since birth, I turned on the television to see how my woeful Cubs were doing. A never-was first baseman named Moe Moehardt at the plate, who never had even 50 plate appearances in the Big Show. The count was one ball, two strikes, two out,bottom of the 9th. I saw only one pitch. Koufax fires a fastball seemingly meant to cross the plate at the batter's thighs. But it kept rising skyward. By the time lumber whiffed air, the fastball had blazed into the catcher's mitt somewhere above the collarbone. Game over. Dodgers and Koufax win.Living in Chicago, with two teams in the major leagues, I have seen thousands of games on television and in person, and many more thousands of pitchers. Never have I seen a pitch like that. Not from powerful Nolan Ryan, not from the wiry, young Roger Clemens, not from Randy Johnson, nor the coltish, drug-free Doc Gooden, nor the ultimately tragic J.R. Richard. Not even from the angriest fireballer to ever take the mound, Bob Gibson. Nobody. And Koufax was like me Jewish and a lefty, although I couldn't play worth a darn. How could you not admire him?The book creates an understanding of how Koufax, after half a career of mediocrity, became great for the last six years of his shortened tenure on the mound, but at remarkable physical cost, especially 1964-66. Tommy John surgery was a decade away from the year he retired at 30 because of arthritis, and other medical techniques like arthroscopic surgery even further down the line. Nobody had ever heard about pitch counts. The ridiculous term "quality start," 6 innings giving up 3 or less runs, had thankfully not become part of baseball lingo. Starting pitchers were part of four-man rotations, not five. And the statistics he piled up during those six years are astonishing. The spectacular strikeout totals, the preternatural strikeout to walk ratios, 11 and 3 in games ending in 1-0 scores, all done while his arm and body burned from an analgesic, now outlawed in the U.S. all to relieve the pain in his withering arm.The author, Jane Leavy, is less successful in what I think is her main goal, attempting to convey the importance of Koufax to Jews. She makes a fuss over Koufax's decision not to pitch the first game of the 1965 World Series because in conflicted with Yom Kippur. But every Jew, religious or like Koufax, non-religious, took off from work on the Day of Atonement. He never even entered a synagogue that day. And it's not as if the Dodgers had to reach into the back of the bullpen for a replacement. They started Don Drysdale. He's in the Hall of Fame, too. So Sandy pitched Game 2. So what?Sure, Jewish kids idolized the Dodger lefty. When you feel you are on the outside looking in, you naturally have warm feelings for a hero who seemingly overcame prejudice or oppression, real or imagined. Italian kids worshipped Joe DiMaggio, not brothers Vince or Dom. An entire race consigned to what was then second class citizenship, placed Jackie Robinson on a pedestal of staggering heights. I doubt anybody would notice if the merely adequate Jason Marquis, had he pitched in the 1960's, skipped his turn on Yom Kipper.There is nothing really unusual about Koufax off the field. He is not reclusive, just quietly private, living his life without fanfare. Unlike Drysdale, who craved the spotlight when he played and seemed to be on centerstage even when he became a broadcaster, Koufax feels no need to ever be the center of attention. At his root, he is still the shy kid from Brooklyn. In an age where public figures and celebrities cannot overcome the urge to announce on Twitter with whom they are bouncing on the bedsprings, Sandy always kept his mouth shut about such things. Do we really have to know that Matt Kemp once cuddled with some singer named Brianna? What has that got do to with taking an outside pitch the other way? Koufax is old school. Non-baseball business is only his business. Leavy respects this. She got just a nodding acknowledgement from her subject, did not interview his two ex-wives, and didn't try to make an open book of Sandy's dating habits. Perhaps this was a sign of the author's understanding of Sandy's sense of dignity and decency.Great athletes robbed of their prime and forced to retire because of illness or injury have to make a significant and early adjustment in their lives. Some, like Gale Sayers, feel uncertainty for a while, and then find other avenues in which to succeed. Others, like Kirby Puckett live until their end in a dark abyss, forever wrapped in victimhood, life stolen from them on the field. When Koufax announced his retirement, unable to bend his left elbow, he said he just wanted to have a normal life. He's had it. Good for him.
Pivotal moments of Sandy Koufax's career provide the foundation for this non-linear narrative, and insights from numerous people that interacted with him or were positively influenced by his achievements confirms his high esteem. The disjointed structure of the book made it a somewhat laborious read and likely caused unnecessary repetition, which occurred with the Koufax / Drysdale salary holdout, the John Roseboro and Juan Marichal incident etc. The work nevertheless explores Koufax respectfully and celebrates all that is outstanding about him.Nicholas R.W. Henning - Australian Baseball Author
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