[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

When Mantle was interviewed following the Dodgers four game sweep over the Yankees in 1964 he said "when Koufax is right.....no one can hit him"

Koufax won two of the four in the sweep.

[Tribune7]

That was '63.

[ReignOfError]

When Mantle was interviewed following the Dodgers four game sweep over the Yankees in 1964 he said "when Koufax is right.....no one can hit him"<.I>

Not to be too glib about it, but if Mantle can't hit ya, ya can't be hit. If modern medicine, say, arthroscopic surgery, had been available then, who knows what Koufax could have done?

Koufax retired before I was born, so I never got to watch him play. But from his reputation, the closest recent pitcher has to be Greg Maddux. Him, I've seen, and when he's on, he's on. A 63-pitch complete game? That's so good it's rude.