Happy 88th birthday to one of the best pitchers the game has ever seen, Sandy Koufax!

[elleng]

The Dodgers legend was a 4x World Series Champion, 3x Cy Young Award winner, 7x All-Star, the 1963 NL MVP and was inducted in to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.

(We named our dog after him!)

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. He was special.

Ryan. Gibson, Martinez special.

[rurallib]

2. I probably saw his worst game ever

Dodgers-Cubs. I think it was 1963. Koufax vs. Kenny Holtzman. Koufax gave up 5 runs in the first as I recall. Didn't finish the inning. Holtzman got knocked out in the top of the second.

Other than that day, he seldom made a mistake.

[elleng]

5. 'Funny,' lost to another Jewish pitcher!!!

[gab13by13]

3. When I was a kid I went to a Pirates game

and Koufax was pitching for the Dodgers. In the first inning the Pirates scored 4 runs off Sandy and the manager comes out to the mound and I yell, don't take him out yet. I was a Little League pitcher. They left Koufax in the game and he went on to beat the Pirates that day.

[captain queeg]

4. My first baseball mitt was signed by Sandy (not original of course).