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Hank Greenberg scores after hitting a home run to give the Detroit Tigers a 2-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox, September 10, 1934. (UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images via JTA)
September 16, 2023, 3:13 am
Remembering Jewish baseball legend Hank Greenberg’s 1934 Rosh Hashanah dilemma
With the Detroit Tigers nearly neck-and-neck with the New York Yankees in the pennant race, the future Hall of Fame slugger had a tough choice to make on the Jewish new year
By jacob gurvis
Detroit Tigers second baseman Ian Kinsler (3) stands by second as umpire Angel Hernandez, right, watches play during the second inning of the Tigers' baseball game against the Texas Rangers on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, in Arlington, Texas. (AP/Tony Gutierrez)
August 22, 2017, 11:59 am
Tiger Ian Kinsler gets big-league fine for ump trash talking
Jewish second baseman sets off protest by umpires, who say symbolically high $10,000 penalty not enough
By Yaakov Schwartz
Hermina Hirsch singing the national anthem before a Major League baseball game between the Detroit Tigers and Tampa Bay, May, 2016 (YouTube screenshot)
May 23, 2016, 12:06 am
Holocaust survivor realizes dream, sings anthem at ball game
89-year-old Hermina Hirsch fulfills life-long ambition after declaring: ‘I don’t want to die before I sing at a baseball game’
By JTA
89-year-old American Holocaust survivor Hermina Hirsch will sing the American national anthem at a Detroit Tigers baseball game May 21. (screen capture: YouTube/CBS Detroit)
April 8, 2016, 11:28 pm
US Holocaust survivor gets wish to sing at baseball game
After video of Hermina Hirsch went viral, Detroit Tigers invite the 89-year-old to sing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at May game
By JTA
Sandy Koufax is out front in the Ron Lewis painting of Jewish major leaguers and others. The sale of 500 autographed prints is partly for profit and charity. (JewishBaseballPlayer.com/JTA)
December 28, 2014, 1:52 pm
Jewish ballplayers go to bat for charities in ‘team portrait’
500 signed prints a triple threat of sports fandom, a for-profit venture and charitable giving
By Hillel Kuttler
Josh Zeid (photo credit: JTA)
December 1, 2014, 2:19 am
Tigers throw reliever Josh Zeid into their Jewish mix
Newly acquired pitcher joins Jewish manager Brad Ausmus and second baseman Ian Kinsler on Detriot ball club
By Hillel Kuttler
Detroit Tigers first-year manager Brad Ausmus, a player for 18 seasons, throwing some batting practice prior to a game against the Baltimore Orioles, May 13, 2014. (Hillel Kuttler/JTA)
June 1, 2014, 4:14 pm
Tigers roar with Jewish duo Ausmus and Kinsler
Detroit’s Jewish community kvells over its team’s combination of Jewish manager and player
By Hillel Kuttler
President Shimon Peres with Major League Baseball player Brad Ausmus in May 2012. (Photo credit: CC BY-SA, US Embassy of Tel Aviv/Wikimedia Commons)
November 4, 2013, 12:59 am
Tigers pick Israel’s manager in WBC bid as new skipper
Brad Ausmus will be the only Jewish manager in Major League Baseball
By JTA
Hank Greenberg at the 1937 All-Star game.
April 12, 2013, 2:08 pm
Before Jackie Robinson, there was Hank Greenberg
As a blockbuster film opens in the US Friday about the man who broke baseball’s color barrier, the sport’s first Jewish superstar is not forgotten
By Ben Zehavi
May 8, 2012, 11:35 am
Tigers’ Young returns to field, says he’s sorry for rant
‘I just want to let everybody know that I’m not anti-Semitic’
April 29, 2012, 2:13 pm
Tigers outfielder arrested after shouting anti-Semitic remarks
Delmon Young faces a misdemeanor aggravated harassment hate crime charge
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