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Posted on 09/22/2015 1:39:46 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
Half a century ago, when Los Angeles Dodgers ace Sandy Koufax chose not to pitch Game 1 of the 1965 World Series against the Minnesota Twins because it fell on Yom Kippur, Elliot Strom was a 15-year-old baseball fan in Toronto. After attending services that morning, Strom, who acknowledges that at the time he "wasn't the best synagogue attender in the world," told his father he planned to stay home that afternoon and watch the World Series on TV rather than return for late services. This did not go over well.
"My father was very unhappy with me,'' Strom recalls. "He said, 'The star pitcher for the Dodgers is not going to pitch in the game. This is the kind of commitment he's showing. Where is your commitment?'"
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Considering they had Don Drysdale, I don’t think it really mattered.
True...though the Dodgers did lose game 1, 8-2, to the Twins. They won the series in seven.
I was in the stands at a Dodgers-Angels game this month (not sure I like inter-league play), and a young man in front of me was wearing a Koufax jersey.
The memories of 1960s baseball, with Koufax throwing strikeout after strikeout.
I went to game 4 of the 1965 World Series. Don Drysdale beat Jim (Mudcat) Grant 7-2 in rematch of game 1.
Koufax was the best. Considering the tepid Dodger offense, he was almost unbeatable from 1962 until he retired in 1966. Drysdale’s consecutive shutout innings record was great; I never thought it would be broken; and then Orel Hershiser broke it. Great pitchers, all three Dodgers.
I remember the 1965 Dodgers. They won 15 out of their last 16 games to squeak past the Giants and get into the World Series. That was pennant fever. No divisions or wild cards in baseball back then. Also, the World Series games were played in the daytime. I carried my new Sony transistor radio to school with me. One of the parents brought a TV (black and white, or course) into the classroom.. The nuns let us watch a couple of innings when the game was tight and we were allowed to watch the ninth inning. Kids today do not get that experience because the World Series game are played late at night.
Game 4 1963 World Series The Right Field Bleachers were very HOT... Frank Howard Home Run was a monster
I remember that it was much discussed in my area.
We all approved because we lived in a town with many Jews .
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Rabbi Moshe Feller, who still heads Chabad of the Upper Midwest, visited Sandy the next day to thank him for being an example. The Rabbi also brought him a set of tefillin as a gift.
World Series.
The Dodgers won that game...but lost the series.
Tepid is an understatement.
From the 1966 series (Wikipedia, Jim Palmer):
"The underdog Orioles swept the series over a Los Angeles team that featured Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, and Claude Osteen. The shutout was part of a World Series record-setting 33 1⁄3 consecutive shutout innings by Orioles pitchers. The Dodgers' last run was against Moe Drabowsky in the third inning of Game 1 [Final 5-2]. Palmer, Wally Bunker and Dave McNally pitched shutouts in the next three games."
Praise God!!
There is a story that Drysdale had gone ahead of the team the day Koufax pitched one of his no hitters ...When told of Sandy’s no hitter by a taxi driver , Don asked : “ Did he win ? “ lol
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