In honor of the end of Yom Kippur, here's a story about Sandy Koufax' famous refusal to pitch on this day (on the Hebrew Calendar) in the 1965 World Series.

When faith trumped baseball

Rabbi Moshe Feller, director of Chabad Lubavitch of the Upper Midwest at age 28, felt divinely inspired to try to see Koufax that Thursday in October 1965 so he could personally thank him for what he had done the day before....

Feller - who has told this story with relish numerous times to friends, audiences and Jewish media but never beyond that circle - introduced himself over the phone. "I told him that more Jews knew when Yom Kippur is because you announced you weren't going to pitch on October 6th than knew from the Jewish calendar."