Sandy Koufax and Joe Torre in Conversation: Twilight of the Idol

Sandy Koufax, hands folded in his lap, sat in the center of Nokia Theatre's bright stage between the Skipper and the Local Sports Columnist , who sat waiting for him to say something.

They weren't the only ones in limbo last Saturday night.  A lot of people have been waiting for Koufax to say something for a long time.  After the death of JD Salinger earlier this year, Koufax might be the most famous hermit left in American "public" life, though as the wry pitcher himself might note, Salinger didn't have to do his writing "there with another 30 or 40,000 other recluses."

I had been thinking about Koufax a lot lately, even before I had finagled a seat to the discussion fea...

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