Word: koufax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Talk about quotas irks admissions staffers because they don't like to think of the admissions process as a mechanical one. And despite the statistical consistency of the class from year to year, admissions staffers work long and hard precisely because they refuse to rely on the numbers. Sandy Koufax's earned-run average always hovered around 2.0, but he sweated for every strikeout...
...agent finds information about a team's morale or physical condition priceless in helping him to set odds. On just such an information hunt, a scout for Chicago Handicapper Burton Wolcoff wangled his way into the clubhouse of the Los Angeles Dodgers a few years back. Learning that Sandy Koufax, who was scheduled to pitch that day, was having even more arm trouble than usual, the agent flashed the news to Wolcoff, who put down $30,000 against the Dodgers. Koufax gave up five runs in early innings and the Dodgers lost...
Alston may have been overwrought by the drama of the moment, but his statement was coldly accurate. The last of the old Brooklyn Dodgers on the Los Angeles staff, Drysdale became one of the most formidable pitchers in baseball history. He teamed with the brilliant lefthander, Sandy Koufax, to lead the traditionally weak-hitting Dodgers to five National League pennants. Although he often pitched in Koufax's shadow, he was the workhorse of the Dodger staff; from 1962 to 1965 he hurled more than 300 innings a season. He holds the club record for most games won (209), most...
...rich stable of race horses, two of which he keeps on his Hidden Hills ranch in the San Fernando Valley. That enterprise helped make him one of the richest ballplayers in the game. In fact, by 1966 he was in so comfortable a financial position that he and Koufax were able to hold out for an unprecedented dual contract for $1,000,000 over three years (Drysdale eventually settled for a one-year, $115,000 contract...
Married. Sandy Koufax, 33, former Los Angeles Dodger pitching ace and prize Hollywood bachelor, who has become one of the most popular television sportscasters on the West Coast; and Anne Widmark, 23, Actor Richard's beautiful brunette daughter, who met Sandy six months ago in Malibu when he strolled by and offered to help paint her family's beach house; both for the first time; in a civil ceremony at the Widmark home in West Los Angeles...