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Article: Sandy Koufax, Baseball's Jewish Star.(Poem)
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- September 1, 2008
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SANDY KOUFAX, BASEBALL'S JEWISH STAR
We scoured the sporting pages for the vagrant Jewish name
that would assuage our sorrow, and we found our twinkling star.
He was young, wild, unfettered, and he once attended the same
Jewish community center in Brooklyn where our own children
would spend sparkling summers during his years of gloved glory.
He belonged to our sacred space, though his family name was
so strange. Who could envision familial connections with a
funny name like that? Nevertheless, we seized upon the promise
of his youth and made him ours. We anguished with him through
bitter travails of contempt and repudiation--wild ...
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