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Lone Plne (17 mile)
Play Ball!
With opening day on deck,
new book introduces kids
to a Jewish baseball icon.
Suzanne Chessler
Special to the Jewish News
B
aseball great Sandy Koufax
always seems to have pre-
ferred privacy to publicity,
and Jonah Winter respected that in
writing his biography for children:
You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!
(Schwartz & Wade Books; $17.99).
The greatest left-handed pitcher of all
time's career in baseball comes across
without revealing
very much about
his personal life.
But the feel
of the sport and
the pitcher who
captivated the
nation for six stel-
lar seasons comes
across through
the book's narra-
tor — a supposed
team member or
associate whose
conversational tone
is punctuated with
a print-adapted
Brooklyn accent.
The narrator authenticates the per-
spective of Koufax's legendary world
experienced with the Brooklyn — and
later Los Angeles — Dodgers.
"It was hard to be engaging about
a person so mysterious so I wanted a
voice that sounded real, especially for
kids:' explains author Jonah Winter,
who has built a career writing bio-
graphical picture books. "I use a dif-
ferent voice and style for every book I
write."
The narrator, an old-timer appar-
ently talking to a youngster, explains
how the shy pitcher started out with
considerable failure despite much
potential. Then, to everyone's surprise,
one game of rocket pitching — after
the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles
— set off his record-breaking career.
"With Sandy, nothin' ever added up,"
the narrator says in Brooklyn basebal-
lese."Just when you thought you were
startin' to understand him, he'd haul
off and throw you a curv'
One part of the book will remind
Detroit Tiger fans of local and ear-
lier legendary Jewish player Hank
Greenberg. Just like Greenberg would
not play an important game on a High
Holiday, Koufax also sat one out.
The author, who thought of Koufax
as comparable to reclusive writer J.D.
Salinger, picks subjects who are iconic
figures with life stories he believes
will be important to young people.
Surely, the lenticular (moving image)
cover by illustrator Andre Carrilho
becomes engaging as it captures the
style of Koufax
going through the
motions of a pitch.
"When I decide
to write about
someone, I look
for one element
that I think would
draw the atten-
tion of children,"
says Winter, 46, a
Pitsburgh resident
who has attended
Interlochen Arts
Camp.
"With Koufax,
I wanted to show
how he ultimately
let his ability do what it was meant to
do."
Strong baseball fans can find plenty
of statistics in the Koufax book with-
out having the story interrupted. Small
charts, such as one titled "When Bad
Seasons Happen to Great Pitchers," are
subtly placed.
Adults who follow the financial
news recently may have noticed that
Koufax allegedly is among the victims
of Bernie Madoff's investment scams.
"I don't ever do primary research
on any of my subjects," says Winter,
whose other baseball books include
Dizzy, Roberto Clemente: Pride of
the Pittsburgh Pirates and Fair Ball:
14 Great Stars from Baseball's Negro
Leagues and whose most recent proj-
ect tells about another Jewish icon,
writer Gertrude Stein.
"I learned that after Koufax
stopped playing, he tried being a
pitching coach and a sportscaster, but
neither worked out. He now lives in
Florida."
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