Lest we forget: Moose Skowron

May 1, 2012

Moose Skowron, right, with Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella.

No, the player born William Joseph Skowron was not Jewish, but there is a Jewish connection, no matter how tenuous.

Skowron, a resident of Chicago, was a guest on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, the NPR news quiz show hosted by landsman Peter Sagal. Long story short, Skowron said some things that sounded so detailed I had to wonder. Inspired by Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else, I did a little research and found that, indeed, the former Yankee/White Sox/Senators/Dodgers/Angels slugger had erred. That entry on both this blog and Kaplan’s Korner on Jews and Sports received more hits than any other story, thanks in part to Neyer, who linked to it on his then-ESPN blog.

Skowron’s NY Times obit, as per Richard Goldstein.

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