data.3news-bydate.test.rec.sport.baseball.104576 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Jewish Baseball Players?
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Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Pablo A Iglesias) writes:
> In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (VB30) writes:
>>Just wondering. A friend and I were talking the other day, and
>>we were (for some reason) trying to come up with names of Jewish
>>baseball players, past and present. We weren't able to come up
>>with much, except for Sandy Koufax, (somebody) Stankowitz, and
>>maybe John Lowenstein. Can anyone come up with any more. I know
>>it sounds pretty lame to be racking our brains over this, but
>>humor us. Thanks for your help.
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>>Thanks.
>>Bobby
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> Hank Greenberg would have to be the most famous, because his Jewish
> faith actually affected his play. (missing late season or was it world
> series games because of Yom Kippur)
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I thought that was Sandy Koufax.
Sam
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> Pablo Iglesias
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