Jewish Ballplayers Flashed Leather on Yom Kippur. How Can We Forgive Them?
Louis Keene
October 23, 2019
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1965: When Dodger Sandy Koufax Didn’t Pitch Game One of the World Series
Tess Cutler
October 24, 2017
Baseball, Jews and the American dream
Jared Sichel
April 7, 2016
In 1903, the Yiddish-language Forverts published a letter from a Russian immigrant, who’d written to say he didn’t understand the point of the game of baseball, the sport so beloved by all Americans.
Why Sandy Koufax sitting out a World Series game still matters 50 years later
Jewish Journal
September 8, 2015
Jesse Agler was pretty talented as a catcher and pitcher in Little League, yet his parents benched him regularly.
How do you spell chutzpah? R-Y-A-N B-R-A-U-N
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2013
It wasn’t so long ago that Ryan Braun was just a rookie phenom, racking up numbers that had Jewish sports junkies rushing to put the Milwaukee Brewers’ slugger in the pantheon with Greenberg and Koufax.
Dodgers hit grand slam in history of Jewish players
Robert David Jaffee
April 17, 2008
When the Dodgers celebrated their 50th anniversary in Los Angeles on March 29 with an exhibition game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, it seemed almost fitting that a Jewish ballplayer, Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis, would hit a pivotal home run that helped Boston win the game. During the Dodgers\’ final home game against the Chicago Cubs at the Coliseum in 1961, a young left-handed pitcher named Sandy Koufax won the ballgame for Los Angeles.
Briefs: Koufax and SLO power-hitter named draft IBL picks; Iran top terror sponsor
Jewish Journal
May 4, 2007
World news briefs.
Koufax Benches Dodgers
Tom Tugend
February 27, 2003
Jewish pride across the baseball world swelled back in 1965, when the legendary Sandy Koufax decided to observe Yom Kippur rather than pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the World Series against the Minnesota Twins.\n\nBut the Hall of Fame pitcher proved unforgiving recently, when a gossip item in the New York Post intimated that he was gay. The Post is owned by the News Corp., controlled by multimedia magnate Rupert Murdoch, who also happens to own the Dodgers.\n\nThrough a friend, the always very private Koufax, now 67, declared that he would no longer assist any Murdoch-owned enterprise and was therefore severing his 48-year-long relationship with the Dodgers.\n\n
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