Winter begins this amazing book with an incredulous "you never heard of Sandy Koufax?!" Sandy Koufax is one of the best left-handed pitchers to have ever played the game. But he wasn't always the best. The book tells of Koufax's Jewish up bring in Brooklyn and how he excelled in sports. He was recruited by a major league scout in 1955 but he spent most of his time on the bench. His pitches were fast but wild. Because he was Jewish, Koufax faced a lot of prejudice and "maybe that's one reason he threw too hard", to prove he was better than every one of those so-and-so's." Eventually, Koufax finds his rhythm, and for six glorious years almost no one could hit him. At the height of his career, Koufax retires due the physical deterioration of his pitching arm. Illustrator, Andre Carrilho, used digitally enhanced graphite artwork that seems to capture the mood and movement of Koufax. This is a grand-slam biography of a baseball legend. Share it with your students today.