The story of the Dodgers lefty sitting out the High Holy Day of Yom Kippur remains the bible-esque super story for Jewish baseball fans five decades after the factFifty years ago this week,Bob Bodziner was sitting on the floor of his apartment in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn, staring at his television set. The then seven-year-aged was mourning his father, or who had died months earlier,and the kinescope, black and white images beaming in from Minnesota were serving as a welcome distraction. The Twins were getting set to play the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the World Series, or but Bodziner was most concerned with who wasn’t: Sandy Koufax.“I just remember thinking the timing of the holiday was unfair and then the Dodgers lost Game 1. I was not ecstatic.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com