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Sandy Koufax sighting at Citizens Bank Park

By Bill Plaschke
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PHILADELPHIA -- Sandy Koufax made a rare appearance at today’s Dodgers playoff game.

He was spotted sitting in the Citizens Bank Park stands in Philadelphia for the Dodgers National League Championship Series game against the Phillies.

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Koufax was sitting next to Dodgers President Jamie McCourt, who has worked hard at bringing him back into the Dodgers family. It was McCourt who convinced the reclusive Koufax to throw out one of the first pitches at the Dodgers home opener.

No doubt they were discussing Koufax throwing out the first pitch at a possible World Series game.

-- Bill Plaschke

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Bill Plaschke

Bill Plaschke, an L.A. Times sports columnist since 1996, is a member of the National Sports Media Hall of Fame and California Sports Hall of Fame. He has been named national Sports Columnist of the Year nine times by the Associated Press, and twice by the Society of Professional Journalists and National Headliner Awards. He is the author of six books, including a collection of his columns entitled “Plaschke: Good Sports, Spoilsports, Foul Balls and Oddballs.” Plaschke is also a panelist on the popular ESPN daily talk show, “Around the Horn.” He is in the national Big Brothers/Big Sisters Alumni Hall of Fame and has been named Man of the Year by the Los Angeles Big Brothers/Big Sisters as well as receiving a Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women’s Law Center. Plaschke has appeared in a movie (“Ali”), a dramatic HBO series (“Luck”) and, in a crowning cultural moment he still does not quite understand, his name can be found in a rap song “Females Welcome” by Asher Roth.

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