Go ahead and name the last time you ran across a high-school lefthander who has a 94 MPH fastball and a hammer of a curveball, a Jewish kid whose prized possession is a Sandy Koufax baseball card ...

At nine, his mother Evelyn remarried and he took the name of his stepfather, attorney Irving Koufax. Sandy grew up playing sports in Jewish community clubs and schoolyards in postwar Brooklyn ...

There is one athlete who does: Jewish legend Sandy Koufax. “Generally speaking, when I’m talking to people, I’ll call them by their first name. He was Mr. Koufax,” Passan told the Jewish ...

(JTA) — Moshiach, thy name is Max — in Atlanta ... he’s a big-time Sandy Koufax fan. In fact his uniform number, 32, is an homage to the Dodgers Hall of Famer who famously sat out a World ...