The Pioneer Valley Youth Baseball League organized a Sandy Koufax Division for the first time this spring. Amherst coach E.J. Mills said that the team was created to give young players a place to ...

Sandy Koufax, left, rears back as he prepares to let go of a fast ball in Wrigley Field on April 22, 1966. Ken Holtzman, right, fires against Los Angeles in Wrigley Field on Sept. 25, 1966. Expand ...

Media correspondent Terence Smith interviews Jane Leavy about her new book on baseball legend Sandy Koufax. On September 9, 1965, Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers threw a perfect game. 27 ...

Willie Stargell called hitting against Sandy Koufax like “trying to drink coffee with a fork.” And so it was. Koufax, the hype-aversive legend sometimes dubbed “the J.D. Salinger of baseball ...

The Lafayette HS baseball field where Sandy Koufax started his illustrious career lay empty yesterday as students and alumni expressed dismay over the legendary program’s demise. “I&#82… ...

Legendary Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax thanks 46 people during a 10 ... in the center-field plaza Saturday morning, Sandy Koufax was winding up to ... eternally awestruck city and its baseball ...

The start of what turned into a legendary career began on June 24, 1955, when Sandy Koufax made his MLB debut with the Los ...

This day in Los Angeles Dodgers history saw Sandy Koufax win the 1963 National League MVP Award over second-place finisher Dick Groat of the St. Louis Cardinals.

When he reemerged—looking nearly the same as he did when he threw his last pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1966—Sandy Koufax glided resplendently onto a baseball field, his iconic number ...

Oct. 301945 — Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to a minor-league contract for the 1946 season with Montreal of the International League.1956 — The Brooklyn Dodgers sold Ebbets Field… ...

Sandy Koufax dominated baseball like no other player. He won three Cy Young Awards and led the Dodgers to four World Series titles. In 1966, chronic arthritis forced him to retire at 30, but he ...

Koufax was a draw that day — 21,000 fans came out, compared to just 530 for Holtzman’s last start at Wrigley Field. And the young pitcher was up to the task. Staked to a 2-0 lead in the first ...