“Sandy Koufax was a Jewish guy playing baseball, and so am I ... “I’ve been doing this 26 years and he’s not just the best player I’ve ever coached; he’s one of the best people ...

For any baseball player, just getting onto the Hall of ... like Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax … heroes who were like us.” JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century.

"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.

Howard Megdal, who writes for Baseball Prospectus and extensively ... When the Brooklyn Dodgers, looking for a Jewish player, signed Sandy Koufax, team owner Walter O’Malley said that he hoped ...

Gil Hodges and Sandy Koufax are among players responsible ... Koufax became the youngest player inducted into the Baseball ...

That was Seymour Stoll’s experience years ago when he drew a Sandy Koufax card at 14 years ... out to collect the cards of every Jewish player in baseball history — around 200 total.

He called every pitch of Sandy Koufax’s perfect game in 1965 ... Torborg was an All-American baseball player at Rutgers. He led the nation in hitting with a .537 batting average in his senior ...

He was 83. Torborg played catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1964-70 and was behind the plate for Sandy Koufax's perfect game in 1965. He also caught a no-hitter by Bill Singer in 1970. He was a ...

Jeff Torborg, the former catcher who caught Sandy Koufax's perfect game and was the ... “I am heartbroken,” former White Sox player and manager Ozzie Guillen posted on X.