Word: koufax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mound, which is also situated about ten inches above the rest of the field, Dwight Gooden in just two major league seasons has risen like an illusion of a fastball to a height somewhat loftier than 6 ft. 3 in., and a level nearly beyond imagination. When Sandy Koufax says, "I'd trade anyone's past for Gooden's future," that includes Walter Johnson's, Grover Cleveland Alexander's, Bob Feller's and his own. "Who wouldn't?" growls Don Drysdale, winding up for his famous knockdown pitch. "Gooden makes $1.32 million a year...
...break an egg? How many little guys like the Yankees' Ron Guidry can really fire it?" Most baseball people are of the opinion that if you cannot throw or hit a fastball on the day you are born, there is nobody who can teach you. "But just like with Koufax and all the great fastball pitchers, it's Gooden's curve ball that really leaves the hitters standing." After his two glorious years, Score lost the 1957 season to a line drive in the eye. His arm shortly withered. "Whatever it is that makes you have a little extra...
Since the end of the season, the team has arranged to hold on to three of its own pitchers, none of them Sandy Koufax (though one of them Rick Sutcliffe), for nearly $4 million a year. "It isn't the fans' fault that the sport has become so expensive, but they'll be the ones deprived of sunshine," says Bill Veeck, baseball's longstanding conscience. "In all history, these fans in Chicago have been the least affected by bad ball clubs, but television teams have to win." If anyone questions whether the Chicago players are fundamentally baseball or television stars...
Three National League pitchers--Bob Gibson of St. Louis in 1968, Sandy Koufax of Los Angeles in 1963 and Don Newcombe of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1956--scored Cy Young and MVP sweeps...
...near the sharecropper's farm where he was born. Alston, who struck out in his only major league turn at bat in 1936, won more than 2,000 regular-season games. During his career he steadied such future Hall of Fame members as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, and was named to the Hall himself last year. He had always signed one-year contracts for the job he considered "the best in baseball." Noted Tommy Lasorda, Alston's successor as manager: "If you couldn't play for Walt, you couldn't play...