Jews Draft Koufax. Everyone Laughs.
Honestly, what is it with these Jewish athlete stories?
In a startling example of wasting a draft pick, the Mo'din Miracle, one of the six teams created for Israel's Inagural Baseball Season, selected Sandy Koufax for their final pick.
Says MSNBC:
In the 1965 World Series, Koufax wouldn’t pitch Game 1 for Los Angeles because he wanted to observe the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. In his career with the Dodgers, he threw four no-hitters, including one perfect game.
The first pick in the draft was infielder Aaron Levin, 21, from San Luis Obispo, Calif., who played for Cuesta Community College, and who was also selected by Modi’in.
The league begins play June 24 with the six teams playing a 45-game schedule. Players from nine nations were drafted, and about a dozen of the 120 players in the league are expected to be Israeli citizens.
This is clearly just a publicity stunt, as the most I'd heard about the baseball league was about the guy from my hometown outside Baltimore who made it to the draft, but wow. I thought honorary degrees were BS, but honorary draft picks. And anyway, I thought Shawn Green was the new official Jewish athlete.
