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From: [email protected] (Roger Lustig)
Subject: Re: Jewish Baseball Players?
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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.
Stankiewicz? I doubt it.
Koufax was one of two Jewish HOFs: the other is Hank Greenberg.
Other good players: Buddy Myer, Johnny Kling, Norm and Larry Sherry,
Ken Holtzman, Saul Rogovin, Ed Reulbach.
There have been over 150 Jewish major leaguers. A few years ago there
was an article about someone who keeps track of this in Spy magazine;
the article was entitled "Jews on First," of course.
There have also been at least two books on the subject.
Roger