Sanford "Sandy" Koufax is a former left-handed

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 baseball

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 pitcher

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 who played his entire 12-year Major League Baseball

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 (MLB) career for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers

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 (1955–66). He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, the youngest former player to receive that honor.

Koufax's career peaked with a run of six outstanding seasons from to 1966, before arthritis in his left elbow ended his career prematurely at age 30.