I literally have attended more than 1,000 baseball games as a fan, ballpark vendor and longtime sportswriter. Yet if I could relive one of them again, I would go back to the game for which I have no ...
On Feb. 28, 1966, Los Angeles Dodgers icons Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax did not report for the start of Spring Training and with that began a double holdout that lasted 32 days. It was a time in MLB ...
In 1966, Dodgers pitching aces Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, negotiating together, held out for better contracts. After not reporting to spring training, the pair signed a contract with Paramount ...
On November 18, 1966, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax announced his retirement from baseball despite being just 30 years old. Koufax was coming off the best season of his career, but sailed ...
After the 1966 season ended, Sandy Koufax shocked the baseball world when he announced his retirement. Koufax, only 30, pitched 323 innings and posted a 27-9, 1.79 ERA that season. To the casual fan, ...
When the new baseball season begins on Sunday, player payrolls for the 30 teams in the Major Leagues will total nearly $4 billion, an average of almost $4 million per player. For the third year in a ...
While we wait for baseball to return, Joe Posnanski will count down his top 60 moments in baseball history — think of it as a companion piece to The Baseball 100 — with a series of essays on the most ...
Fifty years ago this week, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale reported to spring training. The rest of the Dodgers had already been there for a month. The best pitchers on the defending World Series ...