Note: This is an encore post from 2008.
By Gary Rubin
Times Staff Writer
Would he pitch?
That was the question Dodger fans were asking themselves 43 years ago on the eve of their World Series opener against the Minnesota Twins.
The “he” in this case was Sandy Koufax, who not only won 26 games for the team in 1965, but won the pennant-clinching game against the Milwaukee Braves and finished the season with a record 382 strikeouts.
There was just one problem:
Game 1 was scheduled to be played on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, considered the most important holiday among Jews.
Elmer Clarence “Mox” Meukel told his story to a couple of hobos in a shack on Scott Island in the Truckee River near Reno.
Allene Hall Durston, 58, was dying of bone cancer. Of all the people in
Chester Silent was among the most promising young men of Delta Tau Delta at Stanford. The son of Judge Charles Silent and prominent in Los Angeles social circles, Silent, 22, had excelled in his studies and upon graduating with a law degree in the Class of 1907 had begun graduate work at Stanford and was expected to head to Harvard.
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and 
Note: This is an encore post from 2006.
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