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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
"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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Publish Date: Mar 16th, 2010
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.30in - 0.90in - 0.60lb
- EAN: 9780061779008
- Categories: • Sports• Baseball - History• Football
About the Author
Jane Leavy, award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post, is author of the New York Times bestsellers Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, and the comic novel Squeeze Play. She lives in Washington, D.C. and Truro, Massachusetts.
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Praise for this book
"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