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Sandy Koufax is one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history. He was a member of 6 All-Star teams and 4 World Championship teams. He led his league in Strikeouts 4 times, Earned Run Average 5 times and Victories 3 times. Koufax won the pitching Triple Crown and the National League Cy Young Award 3 times in 1963, 1965 and 1966. In 1963 Koufax was also selected as the National League's Most Valuable Player. Koufax threw a then record 4 No-Hitters during his career. He was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award three times and he did it when there was only one award given instead of one for each league. He walked away from the game at the age of 30 after winning his third Triple Crown and became the youngest player ever elected to the Hall of Fame. At the time of his induction, he was the only pitcher in history with more strikeouts than innings pitched.  To date I have 259 unique Beckett recognized cards of Koufax in my collection. I've showed you a bunch of my vintage Koufax cards as I scanned my way up through the 50s and 60s. Here are nine more from my collection.

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1961 Topps #207 Dodger Southpaws/Sandy Koufax/Johnny Podres (Sandy shares this card with his teammate, Johnny Podres.)
1962 Post #109A Sandy Koufax (with Red Lines) (Cut from the back of a box of cereal in 1962.)
1964 Topps #136 World Series Game 1/Sandy Koufax

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1965 Topps Embossed #8 Sandy Koufax (An insert in 1965 Topps packs.)
1967 Topps #236 NL Pitching Leaders/Sandy Koufax/Juan Marichal/Bob Gibson/Gaylord Perry (Sandy is pictured with three of his Hall of Fame contemporaries.)
2002 UD Piece of History #65 Sandy Koufax SP (This is a short print from UD's 2002 set.)

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2011 Topps Update #US140B Sandy Koufax SP
2012 Topps Gypsy Queen Mini Sepia #290 Sandy Koufax
2019 Topps Factory Set Chrome Greatest Reprints Refractors #TGCR17 Sandy Koufax (Another bonus included in my 2019 factory set.)