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High-profile writers lend expertise, affection to Jewish Jocks compilation

November 15, 2012 · 0 comments

Raise your hand if you, like me, are tired to the cliche about the thinnest publication being a treatise on Jewish sports heroes (or some riff thereon). It is therefore with an understandable sense of pride that I recommend Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame. While this collection of 50 essays isn’t just about [...]

Tagged as: Al Rosen, Dahlia Litwick, David Margolick, Jane Leavy, Mark Leibovich, Marvin Miller, Mose Solomon, Robert Weintraub, Sandy Koufax, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, The Epstein

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Because you can hang this lithograph above your bookshelf

October 19, 2012 · 0 comments

(Close enough for government work.) Artist Ron Lewis whose previous creations has celebrated living members of baseball’s 500 home run club, 3,000 hit club, and its 3,000-strikeout pitchers, among other sports icons, has completed a new lithograph presenting 26 living Jewish baseball players.   Copyright Art O Graphs (Of course, this little image doesn’t do [...]

Tagged as: Al Rosen, Hank Greenberg, Ryan Braun, Sandy Koufax

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New book features interviews with Jewish Major Leaguers

March 22, 2012 · 0 comments

Editor’s note:  JTA published this excerpt from Jewish Major Leaguers in Their Own Words: Oral Histories of 23 Players,  edited by Peter Ephross and published by McFarland. Talkin’ baseball: Jewish Major Leaguers and why we care about them by Peter Ephross Nearly all fans of baseball history have heard of Hank Greenberg. Most have heard [...]

Tagged as: Al Rosen, Hank Greenberg, Lou Limmer, Ron Blomberg, Sandy Koufax

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