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Draws on more than four hundred interviews with friends, teammates, and opponents to present a portrait of the distinguished baseball pitcher.
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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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