Category Archives: Baseball

Sandy Koufax and the Lost Legacy of Brooklyn’s Lafayette High School

Also published at https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/28/sandy-koufax-and-the-lost-legacy-of-brooklyns-lafayette-high-school/ New York City real estate developers care little for preserving the City’s history and our memories. And educators are surprisingly reticent as well. I walked by Lafayette High School, where students had painted magnificent mural tributes to their fellow students who’d died. They updated them There was a time when youth […]

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. […]