Sandy Koufax Net Worth: How Much Money Does He Have?

Sanford Koufax is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) left-handed pitcher who spent his whole career with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers from 1955 to 1966. He is regarded as one of baseball’s all-time best pitchers. The first part of his career was uneventful after joining the major leagues at the age of 19, having never pitched a game in the minor leagues; he was a member of World Series champions in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles, though he did not appear in any of the teams’ Series wins.

In each of his last six seasons, Koufax was an All-Star. He was the first pitcher to achieve an ERA of fewer than 2.00 three times. With 382 strikeouts in 1965, he set a major league record that was eventually broken by Nolan Ryan. Koufax won the Cy Young Award three times: in 1963, 1965, and 1966. Koufax was the first major league pitcher to throw four no-hitters and the first left-handed pitcher to throw a perfect game since 1880.

He is also noteworthy for being one of the best Jewish sportsmen in American sports. In his first year of eligibility, 1972, Koufax was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Early Life

Koufax was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Borough Park. When he was three years old, his parents, Evelyn (née Lichtenstein) and Jack Braun, divorced. When he was nine years old, his mother remarried Irving Koufax. The family relocated to the Long Island suburb of Rockville Centre shortly after his mother’s remarriage. Before the tenth school, Koufax’s family relocated to Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst neighborhood.

Koufax went to Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, where he was better renowned for basketball than baseball. He began his basketball career with the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst community center squad. Lafayette eventually established a basketball team, and Koufax became team captain his senior year, finishing second in his division in scoring with 165 points in 10 games.

Sandy Koufax Net Worth

At the age of 15, Koufax also joined the “Ice Cream League,” a local minor baseball league. He began his career as a left-handed catcher before transitioning to first base. Milt Laurie, a baseball coach who was the father of two Lafayette players, noticed him as he was playing first base for Lafayette’s baseball team with his friend Fred Wilpon. Laurie saw Koufax’s pitching ability and persuaded the 17-year-old to throw for the Parkview of the Coney Island Sports League.

Sandy Koufax’s net worth

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Sandy Koufax is an American former professional baseball player who has a net worth of $10 million dollars.

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Professional Career

On June 24, 1955, Koufax made his big league debut. His signing bonus was more than $4,000 (about $40,000 today). In 12 appearances that season, Koufax pitched 41+2 innings. The Dodgers won the World Series, but Koufax didn’t play in it. In 1956, Sandy Koufax struggled with his command.

He only pitched 58+23 innings and had a 4.91 ERA, 29 walks, and 30 strikeouts. Koufax was the final pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers before they relocated to Los Angeles. In June 1959, Koufax set a night-game strikeout record with 16 strikeouts. He tied Bob Feller’s modern major league record of 18 runs scored, and he also scored on Wally Moon’s walk-off home run in a 5-2 victory. He won 18 of his 18 starts, smashing Christy Mathewson’s 58-year-old National League strikeout record. In 1961, Koufax was named an All-Star for the first time.

Sandy Koufax Net Worth

Post-Playing Career

In 1967, Koufax secured a 10-year contract with NBC for $1 million (equivalent to $8.1 million in 2021) to be a Saturday Game of the Week broadcaster. He retired after six years, just before the 1973 season began.

In 1979, the Dodgers hired Koufax as a minor-league pitching coach. He resigned in 1990, citing a lack of pay, although most observers attributed it to his strained relationship with manager Tommy Lasorda. When the Dodgers were sold to Frank McCourt in 2004, Koufax returned to the organization. In 2013, the Dodgers recruited Koufax as a special advisor to team chairman Mark Walter to work with pitchers during spring training and provide advice during the season.

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Personal Life

Sports Illustrated writer John Rosengren labeled Koufax as a secular Jew. Regardless, his choice not to pitch on Yom Kippur in 1965 had a huge impact on Jewish Americans. Additionally, he stated that he would not pitch on Passover Seder night and three times on Rosh Hashanah, one of which was Game 4 of the 1959 World Series.

 

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