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Sandy Koufax's career is almost always described as brilliant, but short.  For four seasons-1963 to 1966- Koufax dominated baseball until his arm problems forced his retirement.  Few people know just how bright Koufax's star burned while he stood on top of the game.  In the span of those four seasons, Koufax won 78.2 percent of his games, led the league in ERA four times, led the league in wins and strikeouts three times, won three Cy Young awards, won one MVP award (he also finished second twice),  and led the Dodgers to two World Series titles.  Over those four years, Koufax's ERA was 1.86 and he struck out 1228 hitters.  He also pitched nearly 1200 innings (even with missing a large chunk of 1964 to an injury) and unfortunately, that was the last fans saw of one of the game's all-time greats on the mound. 

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