Not just a home run, this book is a grand slam. (Publisher's Weekly)

Arresting, high impact digitally manipulated artwork paired with a cover image that creates the illusion of movement, makes this a most striking picture book biography. Narrated from the point of view of an anonymous old timer, readers learn about Koufax's rocky and unpredictable early career with the Brooklyn Dodgers, through his unexpected retirement at the peak of his career. Readers also learn that Koufax  experienced discrimination as one of the few Jews in baseball, but proud to be Jewish he sat out the game on Yom Kippur. All in all, readers are presented with a modest man, a hero to baseball fans and an even bigger hero to American Jews.

Accompanied by sidebars filled with statistics and a glossary of baseball terms.