Sandy Koufax

“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.” – Daniel Okrent, Time magazine

“Ms. Leavy has done a dizzying amount of reporting–more than 400 interviews–and Koufax doesn’t just survive the scrutiny, he emerges from it larger than ever… Ms. Leavy humanizes her subject even as she demythologizes him. The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed…This is an absorbing book, beautifully written.” – Jonathan Mahler, Wall Street Journal

“A baseball classic; the first in-depth reporting on the life and career of the Dodger icon…a must read.” – New York Daily News

“An exhaustively researched study that paints an intriguing portrait of the famously reclusive Dodger pitcher.” – Sports Illustrated

“A perfect game of a book…Jane Leavy scatters the clouds of mythology to show us, after all these years, the man Koufax.” – The Sporting News

Jane Leavy is an award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post. She is the author of Sandy Koufax and the comic novel Squeeze Play, called “the best novel ever written about baseball” by Entertainment Weekly. She lives in Washington, D.C.