Several years ago, when I was working for the New Jersey Jewish News, I was charged with handling just about all of the sports related stories. You probably know that there haven’t been a whole of lot Jewish players among the nearly 20,000 players in the Major Leagues (19,940 as of this writing so that […]
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Lou Limmer
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 […]
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Al Rosen,
Hank Greenberg,
Lou Limmer,
Ron Blomberg,
Sandy Koufax
Today we mark the birth of the late Lou Limmer. I don’t eBay often, but when I do it’s usually for some bit of Jewish sports memorabilia. Like this Limmer card from the 1955 Topps set. Colorful, ain’t it? I had the pleasure of interviewing Limmer shortly before he passed.
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Lou Limmer
Lou Limmer was a power-hitting first baseman for the Philadelphia As in the early 1950s. In 1954 — his only full season, he hit 14 home runs. That may not sound like much, but it was good enough for a second-place tie on a stinko team that finished in the basement, 60 games behind the […]
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Mickey Rutner