Not much comment on Sandy's life nowadays. As always he seems to be very discreet about his public appearances, and he should be respected for wanting to remain as private as possible. He always thought that the public made too big a thing over his athletic prowess.
Not much comment on Sandy's life nowadays. As always he seems to be very discreet about his public appearances, and he should be respected for wanting to remain as private as possible. He always thought that the public made too big a thing over his athletic prowess.
Koufax was the subject of a striking biography a few years ago, Jane Leavy's Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, in which she described him as more than living up to his myth. He lives in Florida; he's twice divorced (and was said to have been shattered by both divorces, particularly his first---former Oriole catcher Andy Etchebarren told Leavy of bumping into Koufax in a tavern shortly after his first marriage collapsed and seeing how distraught he was over it) and childless (the nearest he has to children are nieces and nephews by way of his late half-sister's children and grandchildren; when he dies so dies the name Koufax) but has since come to live very quietly with a woman his own age; he hits the memorabilia shows once or twice a year and very quietly (he's actually very critical of the business, even though it provides his living now); he has investments in sports medicine; and, he continues to enjoy teaching on a free-lance basis in spring training, usually with the Dodgers or the Mets (whose owner, Fred Wilpon, has been a friend of his since their high school days together).