Sandy Koufax

A Lefty's Legacy

By: Jane Leavy

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Paperback | 16 March 2010

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"The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed.... This is an absorbing book, beautifully written." —Wall Street Journal

"Leavy has hit it out of the park...A lot more than a biography. It's a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero's self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory... a remarkably rich portrait." — Time

The instant New York Times bestseller about the baseball legend and famously reclusive Dodgers' pitcher Sandy Koufax, from award-winning former Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy. Sandy Koufax reveals, for the first time, what drove the three-time Cy Young award winner to the pinnacle of baseball and then—just as quickly—into self-imposed exile.

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"Leavy has hit it out of the park...A lot more than a biography. It's a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero's self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory...a remarkably rich portrait." -- Daniel Okrent, Time magazine

"Ms. Leavy has done a dizzying amount of reporting--more than 400 interviews--and Koufax doesn't just survive the scrutiny, he emerges from it larger than ever. . . Ms. Leavy humanizes her subject even as she demythologizes him. The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed...This is an absorbing book, beautifully written." -- Jonathan Mahler, Wall Street Journal

"A baseball classic; the first in-depth reporting on the life and career of the Dodger icon...a must read." -- New York Daily News

"An exhaustively researched study that paints an intriguing portrait of the famously reclusive Dodger pitcher." -- Sports Illustrated

"A perfect game of a book...Jane Leavy scatters the clouds of mythology to show us, after all these years, the man Koufax." -- The Sporting News

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