Also
Read:AN ALL JEWISH BASEBALL
TEAM
THE
MYTH OF THE LONGEST HR
the
first time ever
MY MOST MEMORABLE
MOMENT
JUNE
2011:
THE
99th
ARTICLE FOR BASEBALL
GURU
ONEMOREINNING
You
have to be kidding!!!!
When I was much, much, younger
I was always reading about an all Italian baseball team or one comprised
of all black players. Never was there an attempt to come up with an all Jewish
baseball team (position by position). Whenever I would mention it to my friends
I would get, You have to be kidding
..Jews never played the
game
..you cant have a team that consists of just Hank Greenberg
and Sandy Koufax!).
Well thanks to recent scholarship
we now know about at least 140 Jewish players who have been in the Major
Leagues and we can come up with a list involving an all Jewish
team:
CATCHER:
HARRY DANNING, STEVE YEAGER, BRAD AUSMUS, JOE GINSBERG, MIKE
LIEBERTHAL
FIRST
BASE:
HANK GREENBERG, KEVIN YOUKILIS, LOU LIMMER
SECOND
BASE:
BUDDY MEYER, JOE GORDON
SHORTSTOP:
LOU BOUDREAU, ANDY
COHEN
THIRD
BASE:
AL ROSEN
OUTFIELD:
SID GORDON, MORRIE ARNOVICH, ELLIOT MADDOX, RYAN BRAUN, SHAUN
GREEN
DH:
RON BLOMBERG, MIKE EPSTEIN, ART SHAMSKY, JIMMIE
REESE
PITCHER: SANDY KOUFAX, STEVE STONE, SAUL ROGOVIN, JOEL HORLEN, ERSKINE
MEYER, BARNEY PELTY, KEN HOLTZMAN,
RELIEVER:
LARRY SHERRY
In the years
to come, with the aid of more scholarship, hopefully well be able to
add to that list.
As it is
the list contains four Hall of Famers:
SANDY KOUFAX, HANK GREENBERG, LOU BOUDREAU, JOE
GORDON.
Not bad for such a miniscule list
..not bad at
all.
Also
see:
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/Jewish_baseball_players.shtml