SubscribeHammerin’ Hank hamsa
A hamsa is the Jewish symbol for protection. Although I know my daughter doesn’t cotton to such gestures, I have her one before she started college. Here’s one “featuring” Hank Greenberg that appears in an on-line baseball magazine published by EephusLeague.com, wonderfully eclectic baseball entity for the artistically oddball items of the game. The navigation [...]
Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry? Longevity in sports
Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry? Longevity in sports
Is Jeremy Lin the new Hank Greenberg?
Is Jeremy Lin the new Hank Greenberg?
Mazel tov, Shelley Sommer
Mazel tov, Shelley Sommer, a winner of the Sydney Taylor Silver Book Award for her biography of Hank Greenberg.
People of the book: Upcoming Jewish baseball titles
People of the book: Upcoming Jewish baseball titles
‘Tis the season: Sports books make fine gifts
‘Tis the season: Sports books make fine gifts
Guest column: Jews, Israel, and Baseball: A shidduch?
Guest column by Andrew Wolfenson: Jews, Israel, and Baseball: A “shidduch”>?
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 [...]
Conspiracy theory? Was Hank Greenberg denied his place in the record book?
Was Hank Greenberg robbed?
Greenberg’s a card
Hank Greenberg: still a card
