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hosts ESPN's "The Sports Reporters."
His long list of accomplishments
includes six Emmy awards, including
a Sports Emmy in 1985 for a feature
on Greenberg. He also has authored
34 books.
Still, the intensely private Koufax
certainly will draw much attention
from those at the event.
Koufax always let his left arm do the
talking. For his career, he pitched four
no-hitters, won 165 games, lost 87,
and had an earned run average (ERA)
of 2.76 from 1955 through 1966.

andy Koufax, who dominated
major league baseball during
his 11-year career with the
Brooklyn and Los Angeles
Dodgers, will head the celebrity list at
the 11th annual Hank Greenberg
Memorial Golf and Tennis Invitational.
The June 11 event, sponsored by the
Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation at
Tam-O-Shanter Country Club in
West Bloomfield, benefits the Hank
Greenberg Oncology
Fund at the Detroit
Medical Center.
"I'm really happy that
Sandy Koufax is coming
because he doesn't do
many public things,"
said journalist Dick
Schaap, this year's recipi-
ent of the Hank
Greenberg Memorial
Achievement Award.
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"Sandy is sort of a con-
temporary hero. He's a
very private person, and
we've known each other
a long time. We're very
cordial, and I kid him
about his reclusiveness.
"When I see him I say,
`Please stop pestering me
Former Dodgers Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax.
to interview you. I'm too
busy and I don't have
During the last five years of his
time.'" said Schaap.
career, Koufax put together a record
He recalled seeing Koufax in the
that may never be matched, with a
lobby of a hotel in Seattle during an
111-34 record and an ERA of 1.94.
NCAA basketball Final Four weekend.
Koufax was National League Most
"No one recognized or bothered him,"
Valuable Player in 1963, twice named
Schaap said. "He likes it that way."
World Series MVP and won the Cy
Schaap is receiving the award, pre-
Young Award in 1963, 1965 and 1966.
sented each year to an individual who
"- He's the greatest pitcher I ever
exhibits the character Greenberg
saw," Hall of Famer Ernie Banks once
exemplified during his life, for serving
as honorary chairman of the invita-
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tional for the past 10 years.
."Dick Schaap is a very special per-
son," said Gary Sallen of Farmington
The Hank Greenberg Memorial
Hills, who chairs the event with Dan
Golf and Tennis Invitational
Passman of Farmington Hills. "His
costs $495 per person for golf;
devotion to our event, his willingness to
tennis costs $295; dinner only is
impose on his celebrity friends to attend
$195. For reservations or more
and his genial warmth and personality
information, contact Elayne
have unquestionably been the single
Wolfson
at (248) 788-0921.
most important factor in our success."
Schaap lives in New York City and

