Sandy Koufax spoke for 10 minutes after a his bronze statue was unveiled in the Dodger Stadium Centerfield Plaza. This is what he said.
at the Centerfield Plaza at Dodger Stadium on Saturday.
“So I said, OK, I’m going out for baseball. They had two other good pitchers, so I ended up either in right field or at first base, wherever. But our catcher was Walter Laurie, whose father, Milton, ran a sandlot baseball team. He was at our practices and games sometimes. I have to thank him, I think he started this journey here. He asked me to come pitch for his team, and I didn’t know what the hell pitching was basically, but I said OK.
“The Dodgers’ success in the ‘50s and the early ‘60s has the fingerprints of so many people on it. It’s hard to describe how so many of them performed so well to put us in a position to play on a grand stage, the World Series. “And all the other guys who sat in the left-field bullpen. Our starting pitchers Johnny Podres, Carl Erskine, Joe Moeller, Don Sutton — the Dodgers only 300-game winner — and, of course, Don Drysdale. We were together 11 years and grew up together. We were friends but I think in some ways we were competitors because he set a standard of excellence I tried to live up to and I had an excellence he tried to live up to. And I think it made us both better.
“For all of you who came out thank you. To my family and friends. . . . I love you one and all. I’m done.”Clayton Kershaw puts in five innings of solid work for the Dodgers, who leave 13 runners stranded in a 2-1 loss to the Cleveland Guardians in 10 innings. “There have been so many incredible pitchers in the Dodgers’ storied history, and you get to hear about them a lot, but Sandy stood out, he always did.
“And Sandy, I hope someday I can impact someone the way you have championed me. You really have, left-handed pitcher or not, just in life. And on Thursday, I called Harlan, our mutual friend, just to see what I should say, what I should talk about up here. And you happened to be there with him at the time, and you took the phone and you said, ‘I heard you were struggling with your breaking ball, let me help you.’ And he told me to stay tall. That was it.
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