SPORTSCENTURY: FIFTY GREATEST ATHLETES: #42: SANDY KOUFAX (TV)

Summary

One in this year-long series of sports documentary programs that count down the twentieth century's top fifty athletes as chosen by an elite group of sports experts and journalists. Hosted by Dan Patrick, each program consists of an in-depth profile of an athlete along with comments from sports personalities and writers. This program examines athlete number forty-two, Hall-of-Fame baseball pitcher Sandy Koufax. Commentators include Don Sutton, Tommy Lasorda, Duke Snider, Ernie Banks, Joe Garagiola, Dick Schaap, Buzzie Bavasi, Maury Wills, Roger Kahn, Carl Erskine, Tim McCarver, Willie Mays, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Rabbi Hillel Silverman, and Tommy Davis. Commercials deleted

Details

• NETWORK: ESPN2
• DATE: March 26, 1999 Friday 7:30 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:23:48
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T:57224
• GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries; Sports
• SUBJECT HEADING: Sports; Baseball; Jewish athletes
• SERIES RUN: ESPN - TV series, 1999
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Dan Patrick … Host, Narrator
• Ernie Banks
• Buzzie Bavasi
• Tommy Davis
• Carl Erskine
• Joe Garagiola
• Jesse Jackson
• Roger Kahn
• Sandy Koufax
• Tommy Lasorda
• Willie Mays
• Tim McCarver
• Dick Schaap
• Hillel Silverman
• Duke Snider
• Don Sutton
• Maury Wills