Ebook {Epub PDF} Sandy Koufax: A Leftys Legacy by Jane Leavy

Forty years later, Koufax stands apart and alone, a legend who declines his own celebrity. In Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, Jane Leavy dispels the mystery to discover a . Jane Leavy is the author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy and the comic novel Squeeze Play, which Entertainment Weekly called "the best novel ever written about baseball." She was a staff writer at The Washington Post from to, first in Reviews: Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy. Leavy Produces A Biography As Rare As Sandy Koufax. The most treasured baseball biographies are the ones that take readers to ballparks they haven't visited and inside minds they haven't met. It is no small achievement, as hundreds of biographical efforts have fallen short of the warning track.

In Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, Jane Leavy dispels the mystery to discover a man more than worthy of the myth This highly anticipated book (that was published back in ), affords a lucid examination of arguably major league baseball's all-time greatest southpaw pitcher, from his bonus baby days with the world-champion Brooklyn Dodgers to. 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 bltadwin.ru lives in Washington, D.C. and Truro, Massachusetts. Jane Leavy's Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy is a well-crafted biography of one of the most talented but least understood sports figures of the 20th century. Though handicapped by virtually no input from Koufax himself, Leavy, through extensive quotes and anecdotes from many of those around him over the years, still manages to shape a fairly vivid portrait of a very private man whose remarkable.

Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy by Jane Leavy was written in This was an exceptionally well written and interesting book about, arguably, the best left-handed pitcher in baseball history. Koufax’s prowess as America’s greatest Jewish athlete also added a significant and compelling angle to the biography as well. Forty years later, Koufax stands apart and alone, a legend who declines his own celebrity. In Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, Jane Leavy dispels the mystery to discover a man more than worthy of the myth. In Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, former award-winning Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy delivers an uncommon baseball book, vividly re-creating the Koufax era, when presidents were believed and pitchers aspired to go the distance.