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29,000 people and a million butterflies
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29,000 people and a million butterflies
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Vin Scully's Call of Koufax' 1965 Perfect Game
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Video: Fifty Years Later, Sandy Koufax (and Vin Scully) on One of the Greatest Games Ever Pitched
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Why Sandy Koufax sitting out a World Series game still matters 50 years later - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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October 14, 1965: Koufax has nothing to atone for in Game 7 masterpiece – Society for American Baseball Research
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Fifty years later, Sandy Koufax still stirs up emotions of Jewish baseball fans, Los Angeles Dodgers
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Sandy Koufax fires a perfect game - This Day In Baseball
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The Promise of Baseball, Explore, Baseball Americana, Exhibitions at the Library of Congress
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Koufax achieves perfection
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October 14, 1965: Koufax has nothing to atone for in Game 7 masterpiece – Society for American Baseball Research