Robert Gaynor will be at Fenway Park Tuesday night cheering on pitcher Chris Sale during Game 1 of the World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers. But if a different left-handed pitcher, retired Dodger Sandy Koufax, was on the mound, Gaynor said his allegiance would surely be tested.
“I’m a definite Red Sox fan,” said Gaynor, 78, a Newton native. “But if Koufax was pitching today, I’d be rooting for Koufax. That’s the only condition [under which] I would not be a Red Sox fan.”
Gaynor, a retired attorney who began making bronze sculptures about 10 years ago, holds Koufax in such high regard that he created a bronze 7-foot-3-inch tall, 1,500-pound sculpture of Koufax that now stands in his yard.