Sandy Koufax by Jane Leavy

Sandy Koufax by Jane Leavy

"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.

Jane Leavy is a former Washington Post sportswriter and feature writer who has won numerous awards. She is the author of Sandy Koufax and the humorous novel Squeeze Play, which Entertainment Weekly deemed the best baseball novel ever written.