"It sounded like somebody firing a pistol in a canyon . . . pow, pow, pow. That was the sound of the fastball popping Rube's mitt in that empty ballpark. We all came in to watch this kid."
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Tommy Lasorda, on Koufax's first tryout with the Dodgers, as witnessed by Lasorda and several other Dodger pitchers, who were jogging in the outfield at the time; as quoted in "There Are Players, And Stars--and Koufax" by Ray Didinger (Knight-Ridder), in The Chicago Tribune (August 17, 1986)
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