Sandy Koufax remains a Dodgers legend, but Bill Plaschke argues that Clayton Kershaw is the greatest pitcher in Dodgers ...

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 ...

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 ...

This was Sandy Koufax, but he didn’t act like you thought he would. “If I helped Dave at all, that’s fine, but it really boils down to the man on the mound,” he says now. “Whatever Dave ...

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 ...

Pitcher Sandy Koufax was the epitome of a late bloomer, not hitting his peak until his seventh season. But when it came to the baseball Hall of Fame, he was a man in a hurry. On Aug. 7, 1972 – a ...

Just take what the nice man wants to give you, get into your uniform, and go a fast 25 laps around the field.” When the Dodgers opened camp in 1966, Koufax and Drysdale were not the only stars ...

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.

In an excerpt from his new book, Michael Leahy explains why Maury Wills and Sandy Koufax were not just stars for the Dodgers of the 1960s but representative of that time and place in American life.

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 ...