Sandy Koufax Still Won't Reveal What He Did on Yom Kippur in 1965
It wasn’t a big deal – at first. As The Jewish Week reporter Steve Lipman notes in his rare interview with Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax at the Dodgers’ spring training facility in Arizona, when the athlete turned down Game One of the 1965 World Series because the contest with the Minnesota Twins fell on Yom Kippur, the decision made a minor NYC media impression:
The New York Times and New York Post reported matter-of-factly that he would miss the start because that day was “the holiest Jewish holiday.”
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