Inspired by that sense of pride, Stoll set out to collect the cards of every Jewish player in baseball history — around 200 ...

For many Jewish fans who collect baseball cards, the joy of opening a new pack and finding a Jewish player is second to none. That was Seymour Stoll’s experience years ago when he drew a Sandy Koufax ...

Go ahead and name the last time you ran across a high-school lefthander who has a 94 MPH fastball and a hammer of a curveball, a Jewish kid whose prized possession is a Sandy Koufax baseball card ...

"Sandy would ... But for Koufax, violins -- bittersweet and vaguely ambiguous, like gypsy music. The impression of Koufax persists of him being the J.D. Salinger of baseball.

In 1972, Sandy Koufax was officially ... AL/NL history have started more games than Koufax. Nearly 200 have racked up more wins. Eighty-one have accrued more wins above replacement (WAR), as a pitcher ...

And a crowd of 29,139 just sitting in to see the only pitcher in baseball history [at the time] to hurl four no-hit, no-run games. He has done it four straight years, and now he caps it. On his fourth ...

(JTA) — For tuned-in baseball fans, Jeff Passan is everywhere ... There is one athlete who does: Jewish legend Sandy Koufax. “Generally speaking, when I’m talking to people, I’ll call ...