Jewish Major Leaguers In Their Own Words

Author : Peter Ephross,Martin Abramowitz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786489664

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Jewish Major Leaguers in Their Own Words by Peter Ephross,Martin Abramowitz Pdf

Between 1870 and 2010, 165 Jewish Americans played Major League Baseball. This work presents oral histories featuring 23 of them. From Bob Berman, a catcher for the Washington Senators in 1918, to Adam Greenberg, an outfielder for the Chicago Cubs in 2005, the players discuss their careers and consider how their Jewish heritage affected them. Legends like Hank Greenberg and Al Rosen as well as lesser-known players reflect on the issue of whether to play on high holidays, responses to anti-Semitism on and off the field, bonds formed with black teammates also facing prejudice, and personal and Jewish pride in their accomplishments. Together, these oral histories paint a vivid portrait of what it was like to be a Jewish Major Leaguer.

Author : William M. Simons
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476636313

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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2017-2018 by William M. Simons Pdf

Widely acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research. This collection of 15 new essays selected from the 2017 and the 2018 symposia examines topics whose importance extend beyond the ballpark. Presented in six parts, the essays explore baseball's cultural and social history and analyze the tools that encourage a more sophisticated understanding of baseball as a game and enterprise.

Author : Larry Ruttman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803264823

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American Jews and America's Game by Larry Ruttman Pdf

Most fans don’t know how far the Jewish presence in baseball extends beyond a few famous players such as Greenberg, Rosen, Koufax, Holtzman, Green, Ausmus, Youkilis, Braun, and Kinsler. In fact, that presence extends to the baseball commissioner Bud Selig, labor leaders Marvin Miller and Don Fehr, owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Stuart Sternberg, officials Theo Epstein and Mark Shapiro, sportswriters Murray Chass, Ross Newhan, Ira Berkow, and Roger Kahn, and even famous Jewish baseball fans like Alan Dershowitz and Barney Frank. The life stories of these and many others, on and off the field, have been compiled from nearly fifty in-depth interviews and arranged by decade in this edifying and entertaining work of oral and cultural history. In American Jews and America’s Game each person talks about growing up Jewish and dealing with Jewish identity, assimilation, intermarriage, future viability, religious observance, anti-Semitism, and Israel. Each tells about being in the midst of the colorful pantheon of players who, over the past seventy-five years or more, have made baseball what it is. Their stories tell, as no previous book has, the history of the larger-than-life role of Jews in America’s pastime.

Author : Dave Cohen,Steven LeBow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0982285345

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Matzoh Balls and Baseballs by Dave Cohen,Steven LeBow Pdf

As "America's favorite pastime," perhaps no sport has chronicled the rise of an immigrant nation like baseball. From German-American parents came Babe Ruth, Italian-Americans proudly point to Joe DiMaggio, and Jackie Robinson shattered the color barrier for African Americans that had kept them out of the game since the 1880s. Certainly, almost every Jewish baseball fan knows the names of Hall of Famers Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax, but Jews have played professional baseball in the United States since the earliest days of the sport. Indeed, over 160 Jews are known to have played professional baseball during the modern era, contributing significantly to the game on every level. But who, other than Koufax, is the only other Jewish pitcher to win the Cy Young Award? Which Jewish ballplayer's place in baseball history is assured, as he has the distinction of being the first major leaguer to play a game as a DH? In his landmark book Matzoh Balls and Baseballs, popular sportscaster Dave Cohen uncovers this hidden history and goes right to the source for answers, interviewing 17 former Jewish MLB players to hear, in their own words, what it was like to play in the Majors - the triumphs, frustrations, and everything in between. Foreword by Steve Greenberg. Interviewees include: Larry Yellen, Ron Blomberg, Elliott Maddox, Jim Gaudet, Richie Scheinblum, Joe Ginsberg, Ross Baumgarten, Mike Epstein, Ken Holtzman, Norm Sherry, Steve Stone, Steve Hertz, Don Taussig, Norm Miller, Barry Latman, Morris Savransky, and Al Rosen.

Author : Carrie Jones
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing (R)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512458640

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The Spy Who Played Baseball by Carrie Jones Pdf

"Biography of Major League Baseball catcher and coach who was a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Bob Wechsler,Peter McDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : Baseball cards
ISBN : 069289411X

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The Jewish Baseball Card Book by Bob Wechsler,Peter McDonald Pdf

Author : Howard Megdal
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781637270332

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The Baseball Talmud by Howard Megdal Pdf

Updated and expanded edition! From the icons of the game to the players who got their big break but never quite broke through, The Baseball Talmud provides a wonderful historical narration of Major League Jewish Baseball in America. All the stats, the facts, the stories, and the (often unheralded) glory. This delightful compmendium reveals that there is far more to Jewish baseball than Hank Greenberg's powerful slugging and Sandy Koufax's masterful control. From Ausmus to Zinn, Berg to Kinsler, Holtzman to Yeager, and many others, Howard Megdal draws upon the lore and the little-known details that increase our enjoyment of the game. This new, expanded edition of The Baseball Talmud rewrites the history of Jewish baseball and is a book that every baseball fan should own.

Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780300175141

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Hank Greenberg by Mark Kurlansky Pdf

Profiles the Jewish-American baseball player who, in 1934, risked his chance to beat Babe Ruth's home run record by sitting out a game on Yom Kippur, and describes his impact on Jewish-American history.

Author : Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert,Rebecca T. Alpert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0190619139

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Out of Left Field by Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert,Rebecca T. Alpert Pdf

"In Out of Left Field, Rebecca Alpert explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs, political radicals, and a team of black Jews from Belleville, Virginia called the Belleville Grays--the only Jewish team in the history of black baseball--made their mark on the segregated world of the Negro Leagues. Through in-depth research, Alpert tells the stories of the Jewish businessmen who owned and promoted teams as they both acted out and fell victim to pervasive stereotypes of Jews as greedy middlemen and hucksters. Some Jewish owners produced a kind of comedy baseball, akin to basketball's Harlem Globetrotters--indeed, Globetrotters owner Abe Saperstein was very active in black baseball--that reaped financial benefits for both owners and players but also played upon the worst stereotypes of African Americans and prevented these black "showmen" from being taken seriously by the major leagues. But Alpert also shows how Jewish entrepreneurs, motivated in part by the traditional Jewish commitment to social justice, helped grow the business of black baseball in the face of the oppressive Jim Crow restrictions, and how radical journalists writing for the Communist Daily Worker argued passionately for an end to baseball's segregation."--From publisher description.

Author : American Jewish Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Jews
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133505102

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Heritage by American Jewish Historical Society Pdf

Author : Marc Lee Raphael,Judith Z. Abrams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Baseball
ISBN : UOM:39015069351479

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What is Jewish about America'[s] "favorite Pastime"? by Marc Lee Raphael,Judith Z. Abrams Pdf

Author : Dara Horn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393531572

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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn Pdf

Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life and Prac­tice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.

Author : Deborah Hart Strober,Gerald S. Strober
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470053140

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Israel at Sixty by Deborah Hart Strober,Gerald S. Strober Pdf

Based on extensive interviews, Israel at Sixty presents a balanced, comprehensive account of this complex and amazing land. It re-creates historic events from the actions of Israel's founding visionaries through the ravages of six wars with its Arab neighbors to its growing strength and international stature and efforts to make permanent peace with its adversaries. Complete with more than fifty previously unpublished photos, Israel at Sixty is a beautiful keepsake for anyone who loves, respects, and supports the Jewish state.

Author : Peter Dreier,Robert Elias,Dave Zirin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496217776

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Baseball Rebels by Peter Dreier,Robert Elias,Dave Zirin Pdf

"Baseball Rebels tells stories of reformers and radicals who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America's broader political and social protest movements, including battles against racism, corporate control, worker exploitation, sexism and homophobia, and American militarism"--

Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566892926

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Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner Pdf

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle. Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie. Leaving the Atocha Station is his first novel.