151 beverly hills calif steve soboroff still becomes awestruck when he thinks about how he got here as he stands in a museum surrounded by 33 typewriters that were owned by some of the worlds most famous john lennon and ernest hemingway and infamous unabomber ted kaczynski and dr death jack kevorkian figures he is amazed as he looks at the machines he has purchased over the past decade its a collection and a passion that can be traced back to dodger stadium and soboroffs love of watching sandy koufax pitch and reading what los angeles times sports columnist jim murray wrote the next day in 1999 soboroff a los angeles businessman and civic leader was gearing up to run for mayor when he was at dodger stadium and saw that the glove koufax wore when he threw a nohitter against the san francisco giants in 1963 was for sale soboroff made a deal to buy it for the asking price of 30000 under one condition i told them im going to buy this thing but i dont want anybody to ever know that i have it at least not until the election is over soboroff said the average person in los angeles makes about 30000 per year people would think im an elitist growing up in la soboroff was a regular at dodger stadium during koufaxs heyday and he was on hand when his hero threw his fourth and final nono a perfect game against the chicago cubs in 1965 but in 2005 having lost his mayoral bid in 2001 and with five children either in or getting ready to start college he decided to part with his prized piece of baseball history he flew to new york and put koufaxs glove in a sothebys auction expecting a slight return on his investment it ended up going for 126500 nearly 100000 more than he paid for it its sort of like when youre in las vegas and all of a sudden you have all these chips there and theres no clocks and no lights soboroff said youre playing with house money youre in a different world with 130 big ones the next item up at the auction was a remington model j typewriter owned by murray the pulitzer prizewinning icon of sportswriting who died in 1998 i said oh my god i love jim murray soboroff said forget the front page forget the metro section what did murray say it was his words he was the best when koufax won his perfect game i was there and the next day all i cared about was what murray wrote soboroff who had entered the auction house with no intention of buying anything began to bid he soon found himself in a bidding war for the murray memento with two formidable opponents the los angeles times and the los angeles dodgers drew mccourt frank mccourts son was bidding for the dodgers and someone else was bidding for