Len Ragozin

Len Ragozin

White River Jct., VT — Len Ragozin, 92, died peacefully the evening of May 13 2021, at The Village @ White River Junction. His survivors in Vermont are his daughter, Alexa Manning, his granddaughter, Adeline Manning, and his ex-wife and long-time best friend Marion Buhagiar. He is also survived by a sister, Nikki Keddie, and brother, David Ragozin on the West Coast.

Len lived most of his adult life In Manhattan. He lived frugally and devoted much of his efforts and the profits of the business he founded, The Ragozin Sheets, to anti-racist, pro-worker progressive causes.

He described his work in the pre-computer era of working out the algorithms that became The Ragozin Sheets and his handicapping techniques in a book: The Odds Must Be Crazy. The Sheets are still the outstanding data providers of thoroughbred horse performance records for racing's leading owners, trainers and handicappers.

When he sold the now computerized company producing The Sheets, Len donated most the sale proceeds to found the Len Ragozin Foundation, which provides support to groups and individuals working on innovative ways to put progressive ideas into practice.

Len attended City & Country School in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, a more than a 100-year-old groundbreaking progressive elementary school, and provided a life-saving mortgage when it faced financial difficulties during the 1970s. He also attended Harvard University.

As he requested, Len was cremated without ceremony. No memorials are currently planned.