Koufax Throws a Curve: The Los Angeles Dodgers at the End of an Era, 1964-1966
The conclusion of the Sandy Koufax Era was a wild roller coaster ride for the LA Dodgers. Overly dependent on the fragile left arm of their to-be Hall of Fame left-hander, they careened from their worst season since World War II in 1964 after losing Koufax to an injury in mid-August, to a World Series Championship in 1965 on the strength of his shutout performance on short rest in Game 7 with the Twins, to an ignominious World Series collapse to the Orioles in 1966 after he single-handedly saved the Dodgers' 1966 regular season in the final game.

In the last two seasons of his career, Koufax averaged an impressive 27 complete games, 27 wins and 350 strikeouts. Yet 16 days after winning his second straight unanimous Cy Young Award, he shocked Major League Baseball by announcing he was going to retire. Like a supernova that had lit up the sports world for six years, he flamed out and was gone by age 30.

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Koufax Throws a Curve: The Los Angeles Dodgers at the End of an Era, 1964-1966
The conclusion of the Sandy Koufax Era was a wild roller coaster ride for the LA Dodgers. Overly dependent on the fragile left arm of their to-be Hall of Fame left-hander, they careened from their worst season since World War II in 1964 after losing Koufax to an injury in mid-August, to a World Series Championship in 1965 on the strength of his shutout performance on short rest in Game 7 with the Twins, to an ignominious World Series collapse to the Orioles in 1966 after he single-handedly saved the Dodgers' 1966 regular season in the final game.

In the last two seasons of his career, Koufax averaged an impressive 27 complete games, 27 wins and 350 strikeouts. Yet 16 days after winning his second straight unanimous Cy Young Award, he shocked Major League Baseball by announcing he was going to retire. Like a supernova that had lit up the sports world for six years, he flamed out and was gone by age 30.

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Koufax Throws a Curve: The Los Angeles Dodgers at the End of an Era, 1964-1966

Koufax Throws a Curve: The Los Angeles Dodgers at the End of an Era, 1964-1966

by Brian M. Endsley
Koufax Throws a Curve: The Los Angeles Dodgers at the End of an Era, 1964-1966

Koufax Throws a Curve: The Los Angeles Dodgers at the End of an Era, 1964-1966

by Brian M. Endsley

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Overview

The conclusion of the Sandy Koufax Era was a wild roller coaster ride for the LA Dodgers. Overly dependent on the fragile left arm of their to-be Hall of Fame left-hander, they careened from their worst season since World War II in 1964 after losing Koufax to an injury in mid-August, to a World Series Championship in 1965 on the strength of his shutout performance on short rest in Game 7 with the Twins, to an ignominious World Series collapse to the Orioles in 1966 after he single-handedly saved the Dodgers' 1966 regular season in the final game.

In the last two seasons of his career, Koufax averaged an impressive 27 complete games, 27 wins and 350 strikeouts. Yet 16 days after winning his second straight unanimous Cy Young Award, he shocked Major League Baseball by announcing he was going to retire. Like a supernova that had lit up the sports world for six years, he flamed out and was gone by age 30.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781476669427
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date: 04/30/2018
Pages: 215
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.43(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Attorney Brian M. Endsley lives in Pleasant Hill, California.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Prologue
Part I. 1964: The Lost Season
 1. Off with a Bang, and Off a Cliff
 2. The Light Goes Out in August
 3. A Season Ends in Chaos
 4. Autopsy for a Lost Season
Part II. 1965: The Triumph of Drysdale and Koufax
 5. The Spring of Doubt
 6. Mayday! Mayday!
 7. Survival Summer
 8. September of Colliding Streaks
 9. The World Series with the Twins
10. How in the World Did They Do It?
Interlude delete
Part III. 1966: Flameout!
11. Holding Out in a Gathering Storm
12. Struggling in the Aftermath
13. Climbing to First on the Back of #32
14. Staggering into the Break
15. Three-Team NL Dogfight Round 1—August
16. Three-Team NL Dogfight Round 2—September
17. The Last Weekend
18. The World Series with the Orioles
19. Coming Apart in Japan
20. Black Friday
Epilogue
Appendix: Sandy Koufax Statistics
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
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