Sandy Koufax

Hall-Of-Famer May Take The Mound In Madoff Case

Reuters | Posted 05.13.2012

* Trial over New York Mets owners' ties to Madoff * Trustee and defense list potential witnesses * Madoff investor Koufa...

Allen Iverson Broke? He'd Be Far From First Star Athlete To Face Ruin

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.08.2012

For professional athletes, the glory of victory may last forever, but the money they earn getting that win certainly doesn't. A Georgia judge garn...

Don't Play Ball: Why Sandy Koufax Sat Out The World Series On Yom Kippur

Rabbi Shais Taub | Posted 12.06.2011

Rabbi Shais Taub

As counterintuitive as it may seem, the power of not-doing possesses a purity and a truth that doing cannot rival. Giving is easy. Doing is easy. Movement is easy. What's difficult is stopping.

Following the Fun of the Fireballers

Tim Wendel | Posted 05.25.2011

Tim Wendel

With baseball's Opening Day upon us, following the fun is the best way to begin a new season. Nothing can turn around a team's fortunes faster than a pitcher who can really bring it.

Duke Snider -- Farewell, My Hero

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert E. Murphy

They played more than half a century ago, so most of them are gone, the Brooklyn Dodgers that I knew. This one hurts. For me and most of the kids of the 1950s, he was the one. Our hero.

Of Dice and Men

Jeff Polman | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeff Polman

I first see the line while crossing Fifth Avenue: dozens of grown men in multi-colored parkas and baseball caps, waiting in sub-freezing temperatures to honor their hero. I won't lie. I'm one of them.

Re-Creating Sandy Koufax's Perfect Game Out Of Gingerbread

Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

UPDATE: Rebecca Elias, one of the four siblings who started the ritual, contacted us with photos of the gingerbread assembly process. Leonard Elias, N...

Classical Music Media Sighting: Felix Mendelssohn Introduces Interview With Sandy Koufax

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Laurence Vittes

Heralding the Sandy Koufax segment in Jews and Baseball, the perky opening bars of the "Allegro vivace" movement from Moses' grandson Felix Mendelssohn's Fifth Symphony pipe up.

House of Cards

Glenn C. Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011

Glenn C. Altschuler

I'm talking about baseball cards. In 1962, from Opening Day through the World Series, the twelve-year-old kids in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn used them as currency.

Sporting Grace: The Zen of Spectatorship

Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Philip Goldberg

If you bring to sports a spiritual intention and a fully attentive mind, a game is more than a game; it's a step on the soul's ladder of progress, win or lose. Play ball!

Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 05.25.2011

Len Berman

Some important hockey equipment has gone missing. The stick and gloves used by Sidney Crosby when he scored the gold medal winning goal in Vancouver.

Vin Scully's Last Innings

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert E. Murphy

Vin Scully, if he is as decent a man as I think he is, must know that the Dodgers' flight from Brooklyn for 300 acres of central Los Angeles was a shameful maneuver.

Sandy Koufax Invested With Madoff

AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax, a high school baseball teammate and friend of New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon, was among the clients who inve...

The Republican Race that Wasn't

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Lincoln Mitchell

The Republican primary fight that didn't happen in the first months of 2008, may be unfolding now. As they begin to regroup, the GOP finds itself lacking leadership, vision or new constituencies.