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50 Years since Sandy turned Dandy with Yom Kippur decision

September 21, 2015 · 2 comments

If he had just been a Jewish ballplayer, dayenu, it would have been enough. If he had just been arguably the best pitcher of his generation, dayenu. But when Sandy Koufax declined to take the mound for the first game of the 1965 World Series? More than enough. Fifty years later, Koufax’s decision to sit […]

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The Bookshelf Conversation: Jeff Katz

May 18, 2015

When I saw Richard Sandomir’s article in The New York Times last year about about Jeff Katz , the Mayor of Cooperstown who writes about baseball, I thought: there but for the grace of God…. My wife, a veterinarian, had a chance to get a job in Cooperstown way back when our daughter was two. […]

Tagged as: baseball strike, Cooperstown, Dave Winfield, Fernando Valenzuela, free agency, Marvin Miller, Mayor Jeff Katz, New York Yankees, Reggie Jackson

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