Category Archives: Baseball
Sandy Koufax and the Lost Legacy of Brooklyn’s Lafayette High School
Also published athttps://www.counterpunch.org UNLIKE MOST EVERYWHERE ELSE, real estate speculators in New York City run the Democratic Party. They care just as little as speculators elsewhere for preserving the City’s history. The D train — the same West End line above which dad slugged that Clincher softball of lore six decades ago — creaks high […]
BYE-BYE JOE PEPITONE, & THANK YOU
There have been three professional baseball players I’m aware of from my Gravesend/Bensonhurst (Brooklyn) neighborhood: The one-of-a-kind Dodgers’ pitcher Sandy Koufax (who’d refused to play on the Jewish holidays, and made us all proud although we didn’t really know why!), John Franco, and Joe Pepitone, who was the NY Yankees’ first baseman in the mid-1960s. […]
