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...opposing team gets about two earned runs a game on Maddux--2.03, to be exact, since 1992, which is the lowest mark over such a long period in the postwar era. In 1994 his earned-run average was just 1.56. So far this year, it's 1.57. Sandy Koufax never had such a good year. Nor did Nolan Ryan. In fact, only two pitchers in modern baseball have: Bob Gibson (1.12 in 1968) and Dwight Gooden...
...initial instinct, and the instinct that remains, is that I'm thrilled with it. Michael Ovitz knows our business, so there's a familiarity that will lend support." Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of the Disney subsidiary Miramax Films, calls Eisner and Ovitz "the greatest one-two combination since Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale--only they're both Koufax. Mike Ovitz is the No. 1 talent magnet. Talent loves him. If you say, 'Hey, Mike, I'm having trouble casting this movie,' in about an hour you're not going to have much trouble...
...days of baseball's goodwill ambassadors with names like Koufax, DiMaggio, Williams, Maris and Aaron are long past. The day of hockey's ascension to the professional sports' spotlight is still to come. Now is the time for the NBA to carry the banner of good sportsmanship...
...pitch the 12th perfect game in baseball history. With the help of a spectacular diving catch by outfielder Rusty Greer in the ninth inning, Rogers' 98 pitches and eight strikeouts were enough to put his name in the history books alongside such baseball greats as Cy Young, Sandy Koufax and Catfish Hunter...
Some may even be true. The one about Cohen, Koufax and the ice cream, however, is not. Last year a Washington Post reporter checked with Koufax. The former Dodger said he'd never been to New Haven, and although he did grow up in the same neighborhood as King, they did not really become friends until they were adults. So why did King make the story up? Part of the answer may lie in that Brooklyn playground where the little boy proudly pounded erasers. King, the son of Russian-immigrant Jewish parents, was one of those kids who, if they...