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100	1		_aLeavy, Jane.
245	1	0	_aSandy Koufax : _ba lefty's legacy / _cJane Leavy.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bHarperCollins, _cc2002.
300			_axxii, 288 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aPreface: Poet and the pitcher -- Warming up -- Pregame show -- When Sandy touched the sky -- First inning -- Accidental pitcher -- Second inning -- Greenhorn -- Third inning -- To be young and wild -- Fourth inning -- 1961 -- Fifth inning -- When we were young -- Sixth inning -- Pulling teeth -- Seventh inning -- King of the Jews -- Eight inning -- Warning shot -- Ninth inning -- Sweet sorrow -- Epilogue: After life -- Appendix -- Career statistics -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
520			_aIn an era when too many heroes have been toppled from too many pedestals, Sandy Koufax stands apart and alone, a legend who declined his own celebrity. As a pitcher, he was sublime, the ace of baseball lore. As a human being, he aspired to be the one thing his talent and his fame wouldn't allow: a regular guy. A Brooklyn kid, he was the product of the sedate and modest fifties who came to define and dominate baseball in the sixties. In Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, former award-winning Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy delivers an uncommon baseball book, vividly re-creating the Koufax era, when presidents were believed and pitchers aspired to go the distance. He was only a teenager when Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley proclaimed him "the Great Jewish Hope" of the franchise. But it wasn't until long after the team had abandoned Brooklyn that the man became the myth. Old-fashioned in his willingness to play when he was injured and in his acute sense of responsibility to his team, Koutax answered to an authority higher than manager Walter Alston. When he refused to pitch the opening game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, he inadvertently made himself a religious icon and an irrevocably public figure. A year later, he was gone -- done with baseball at age thirty. No other sports hero had retired so young, so well, or so completely. Despite Sandy Koufax's best efforts to protect his privacy, his legend has grown larger ever since. Part biography, part cultural history, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy gets as close to that legend as he will allow. Through meticulous reporting and interviews with five hundred of his friends, teammates, and opponents, Leavy penetrates the mythology to discover a man more than worthy of myth.
600	1	0	_aKoufax, Sandy, _d1935-
650		0	_aBaseball players _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		4	_aPrimera Jornada de Catalogación.
650		4	_aJugadores de béisbol _zEstados Unidos _vBiografías .
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc043/2002068722.html
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0910/2002068722-b.html
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