Sandy Koufax defined and distinguished himself by what he did on the baseball field and what he refused to do. In 1965, at the pinnacle of his illustrious career and as the dominant sports figure of the day, Sandy Koufax refused to pitch the opening game of the World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. To the Jewish community, Koufax was the source of unimaginable pride at the time, barley twenty years after the Holocaus
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