Sandy Koufax

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

Reuters | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Fraud, New York Mets, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, Video, Sandy Koufax, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, Reuters, Police Athletic League, Ponzi Scheme, Los Angeles Dodgers, Baseball Hall of Fame, Brooklyn Dodgers, Bernie Madoff, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, Business News

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

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

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.08.2012

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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...

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

Rabbi Shais Taub | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Yom Kippur, Chabad, Baseball, Minnesota Twins, Sandy Koufax, Yom Kippur Atonement, Los Angeles Dodgers, American Jews, Jewish High Holidays, Judaism, Yom Kippur Reflection, Sandy Koufax Yom Kippur, Religion and Sports, Yom Kippur and Sports, Obama Sandy Koufax, Religion News

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.

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Following the Fun of the Fireballers

Tim Wendel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tim Lincecum, Sandy Koufax, Justin Verlander, High Heat, Nolan Ryan, Joel Zumaya, Tim Wendel, Aroldis Chapman, David Price, Sports News

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.

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Duke Snider -- Farewell, My Hero

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jackie Robinson, Los Angeles Dodgers, Ebbets Field, Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax, San Francisco Giants, Willie Mays, Walter O'Malley, Roy Campanella, Roger Kahn, Brooklyn Dodgers, Howard Cosell, Baseball, Duke Snider, Sports News

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.

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Of Dice and Men

Jeff Polman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rick Peterson, Jim Callis, Hal Richman, Strat O Matic, Baseball, Mets, Sandy Koufax, Fifth Avenue, Keith Olbermann, Babe Ruth, Sports News

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.

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

Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Moses Mendelssohn, Baseball, Sandy Koufax, Interview, Exclusive, Jews and Baseball, Arts News

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.

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House of Cards

Glenn C. Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baseball Cards, Brooklyn, Baseball, Mickey Mantle, Opening Day, Sandy Koufax, Yankees, Sports News

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.

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Sporting Grace: The Zen of Spectatorship

Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jackie Robinson, Zen, Michael Jordan, Tao Te Ching, Kobe Bryant, Baseball, Sandy Koufax, Major League Baseball, Jesse Owens, Opening Day, Bhagavad Gita, Spirituality, Bill Russell, Sports News

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!

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Vin Scully's Last Innings

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bob Gibson, Gil Hodges, Spotsman's Park, Vin Scully, Los Angeles Dodgers, Ebbets Field, Sandy Koufax, Walter O'Malley, Red Barber. Jonathan Schwartz, Fordham, Curt Smith, Ireland, Brooklyn Dodgers, Dodger Stadium, New York News

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.

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Sandy Koufax Invested With Madoff

AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Madoff Client List, Madoff Investors, Sandy Koufax, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Client, Sandy Koufax Madoff, Madoff Victims, Sandy Koufax Madoff Client, Business News

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...

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The Republican Race that Wasn't

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Juan Marichal, Los Angeles Dodgers, Republican Primary, Rudy Giuliani, Sandy Koufax, Mike Huckabee, San Francisco Giants, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, 2008 Election, Politics News

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.

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