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Posted By: calvindog

Koufax was hardly a supernova. Steve Blass was a supernova. Mark Fidrych was. Joe Charbeneou was. Koufax was probably the most dominant pitcher over a five year period as one has ever been. And he pitched in pain and he pitched on two days rest in the biggest game of his life--and didn't require middle relief to bail him out. And he never got arrested and he never took the juice. And he turned down big money to retire on his own terms. Rarely has the combination of greatness--both in the baseball sense and as a person--existed in one baseball player as it did in Koufax.