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Finding the Left Arm of God: Sandy Koufax and Los Angeles Dodgers, 1960-1963
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Finding the Left Arm of God: Sandy Koufax and Los Angeles Dodgers, 1960-1963
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Finding the Left Arm of God: Sandy Koufax and Los Angeles Dodgers, 1960-1963
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This is the story of the L.A. Dodgers' volatile fortunes during Sandy Koufax's transformation from a wild left-hander with a losing record on the verge of quitting the game, to an artist with exquisite control of the baseballa veritable Mozart on the mound.
From the Dodgers' sudden plunge into the baseball wilderness in 1960, to their return to pennant contention in Koufax's breakout year of 1961, through their catastrophic 1962 seasonprecipitated by Koufax's freak midseason finger injuryto their redemption in 1963 with their second World Championship on the West Coast, the narrative is set against the backdrop of John F. Kennedy's fleeting
New Frontier
presidency.
From the Dodgers' sudden plunge into the baseball wilderness in 1960, to their return to pennant contention in Koufax's breakout year of 1961, through their catastrophic 1962 seasonprecipitated by Koufax's freak midseason finger injuryto their redemption in 1963 with their second World Championship on the West Coast, the narrative is set against the backdrop of John F. Kennedy's fleeting
New Frontier
presidency.