Archive for September, 2011

Welcome to the Club

Braun and Kinsler: Welcome to the Club

Sandy Koufax: “most observant Jewish baseball player ever”

Sandy Koufax: “most observant Jewish baseball player ever”?

Converting for the jokes

Taylor King: converting for the jokes?

JML update, games of Sept. 27

JML update: Kinsler joins Braun in 30/30 club. Lavarnway clubs a pair to lead Red Sox.

Shalom, chaver Guillen

Shalom, chaver Guillen

JFL update: Monday Night Football

NFL Update: Kosier, Cowboys beat Redskins in MNF

JML update, games of Sept. 26

JML update, Sept. 26: Braun inches along in batting race.

Now read this: Review of new Greenberg bio

The Jewish Review of Books (shouldn’t that be Review of Jewish Books?) ran this review of Mark Kurlansky’s recent biography, Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want To Be One. The piece begins with a reference to Mark Helprin’s short story, “Perfection,” which “re-imagined Bernard Malamud’s “Natural” as an adolescent Holocaust survivor whose otherworldly ability [...]

JFL report, Week 3

JFL report, Week 3

JML update, weekend edition

JML Weekend update: Shabbat Shalom — Kinsler, Feldman, and Braun’s teams clinch division crowns.