Sandy Koufax, Jane Leavy
Sandy Koufax, Jane Leavy
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Sandy Koufax
A Lefty's Legacy

Author: Jane Leavy

Narrator: Charley Steiner

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper

Published: 08/13/2009

Synopsis

“The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed…. This is an absorbing book, beautifully written.” —Wall Street Journal “Leavy has hit it out of the park…A lot more than a biography. It’s a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero’s self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory… a remarkably rich portrait.” — Time The instant New York Times bestseller about the baseball legend and famously reclusive Dodgers’ pitcher Sandy Koufax, from award-winning former Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy. Sandy Koufax reveals, for the first time, what drove the three-time Cy Young award winner to the pinnacle of baseball and then—just as quickly—into self-imposed exile.

About Jane Leavy

Jane Leavy, award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post, is author of the New York Times bestsellers Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, and the comic novel Squeeze Play. She lives in Washington, D.C. and Truro, Massachusetts.

About Charley Steiner

p>Charley Steiner has worked as an anchor for ESPN's SportsCenter and as a play-by-play commentator for Major League Baseball on both ESPN and ESPN Radio. Prior to working at ESPN, Steiner handled morning sports reports and play-by-play for the New York Jets at WABC Radio in New York City. He currently teams with John Sterling to broadcast New York Yankees baseball on WABC-AM.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brett on June 05, 2021

I enjoyed reading about the legend Sandy Koufax from Brooklyn. Although he had a short-lived career from 1962 to 1966 that saw him lead the National League in ERA all five years, win three Cy Young awards, and pitch four no-hitters including a perfect game. Then he almost completely vanished from ba......more

Goodreads review by Brian on July 04, 2019

I don't know the contours of his character as well as I have in some biographical subjects, but I'm sure the author got as much out of her subject as she could. She certainly made up for it in my other criteria for biographies, how well does the author conveyed to the reader the flavor of the times.......more

Goodreads review by Mary on May 25, 2010

I was very let down by this book. Sandy Koufax was a great pitcher, an inspirational human being, and is a hero to many people (including myself). But this book is just a big heaping mess of hero-worship (hagiography). It was a one-dimensional look at a man who is very complex and enigmatic. I thoug......more

Goodreads review by Harold on October 06, 2019

So I reread the book after fifteen years and it got better, Maybe it's nostalgia or my old age, but I loved the book. Leavy was hampered by the fact that Sandy made it abundantly clear in a polite way that he would not participate in the biography, but invited her to talk to his friends and teammate......more

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