Who is Sandy Koufax?
Sandy Koufax was a Major League baseball Player (MLB) who made his MLB debut in 1955-06-24. Welcome to the Sandy Koufax biography by Sportspool.com Baseball database. Sandy Koufax was an Major League Baseball Player who was born on December 30, 1935. Sandy Koufax was born as Sanford. Sandy Koufax wieght: 210 lbs. Sandy Koufax height: 74.0 inches. Currently we are featuring Sandy Koufax MLB statistical data. Below you will find the overall record for Sandy Koufax from the teams he managed, the number of games he worked, his winning percentage, the number of wins, the total number of losses and other personal data. An MLB Player controls all matters of team strategy on the field and team leadership, he sets the line-up and starting pitcher before each game as well as making substitutions throughout the game. There have been many Players over the years that we do not list as they were not the team Player. Enjoy the Sandy Koufax MLB historical data provided below.
I really like what Bruce has written here. I gather from Bruce’s bio, comments he has made in other blog entries and some of what he mentions here, that he and I are of essentially the same vintage and provenance. (I grew up in So. California, which I presume Bruce did, or else Sandy Koufax, “The Man” on the L. A. Dodgers pitching staff in the 1960s and hero to thousands of L.A.-area boys in his day, probably wouldn’t be mentioned in that vein!) The relationship between youth and “hero” is complicated today, for sure. I am a college professor. When I ask my students, as I sometimes have occasion to do, “Who are your heroes?” they most often give the name of an athlete or rock musician. An athlete they name will usually be someone who is simply an outstanding athlete, as opposed to Sandy K., who was that AS WELL AS, during and after his sports career, a model citizen in just about every respect. (Sports Illustrated named him Athlete of the 20th Century NOT simply because he was, it may
” Maybe Koufax is secretly gay plenty of gay men have been married, many twice or bisexual, or who knows what. But at its heart, this isnt a gay story, or even a sex story it is a baseball story. Baseball fans are simply unwilling or unable to contemplate the possibility that a baseball legend might be gay. The one lesson we can all learn from the Koufax affair is that when even the New York Daily News can recycle the old Seinfeld line ” not that theres anything wrong with that ” about gayness, the reality is that lots of people still think there is. Otherwise, privacy and principles aside, it wouldnt even be an issue. Issue Date: February 27 – March 6, 2003 Back to the News and Features table of contents.
