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After pitching for one season of pitching college varsity baseball for the University of Cincinnati in the spring of 1954, Sandy Koufax quickly gained the attention of the professional baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Koufax made his major league debut the following year against Hank Aaron’s Milwaukee Braves. It wasn’t until midway through Koufax’s career that he gained dominance and became one of the greatest pitchers baseball had ever seen. From 1961 through his retirement after the 1966 season, Koufax won three pitching triple crowns (leading the league in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average), 6-time NL ERA leader, 4-time MLB strikeout leader, 1963 NL MVP and 3 Cy Young awards, and led the Los Angeles Dodgers to two World Series Championships (4 total, including 1955 and 1959 with Brooklyn). His 4th career no-hitter was recorded as a perfect game, one of only 23 perfect games in baseball history.
Koufax was inducted on the first ballot into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.
