It’s the fastball that hitters talk about ... who throws a similarly huge curveball to control hitter’s bat speed. The other was Sandy Koufax, who Fried has studied on You Tube.

The average MLB fastball is 94.2 mph, according to the Baseball Savant. Lively’s average fastball in his time with Cleveland is 89.8 mph. That probably matched the average when I broke into the ...

Sandy Koufax dominated baseball like no other player. He won three Cy Young Awards and led the Dodgers to four World Series titles. In 1966, chronic arthritis forced him to retire at 30 ...

Not observant but proudly Jewish, Koufax decided he would not pitch on the holiday. It is a decision that 59 years later remains a defining moment in the history of American Judaism. Sandy Koufax ...

We spoke to a man who swears he sat behind the legendary pitcher at Temple of Aaron in Minnesota. If Daniel Schloff’s family had been on time to Yom Kippur morning services in 1965, he may have ...

Will Thor decide to go macho, his 100-mile-an-hour fastball against the best power ... Skenes is just being mean. As Sandy Koufax said once, pitching is the art of instilling fear into the batter.

Dodger pitcher, Sandy Koufax, in action against the Minnesota ... Ryan set an unattainable standard by pairing a triple-digit fastball with a devastating breaking ball in a Hall of Fame career.

His fastball sizzled and his curveball popped ... and an occasional spring instructor named Sandy Koufax. “I felt like I learned more in two to three weeks in spring training, just being around ...

Arizona Diamondbacks v Los Angeles Dodgers - Game One. Dodgers legend Sandy Koufax watches game one of the National League Division Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona ...

The High Holidays are here; invariably, the discussion gets around to the time when pitching great Sandy Koufax (1935-) refused to pitch in the first game of the 1965 World Series because it coincided ...