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Hank Greenberg

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
Baseball player Ryan Braun. (Joe Robbins/Getty Images/via JTA)
June 12, 2019, 2:36 pm
Ryan Braun breaks Hank Greenberg’s record for most home runs by Jewish player
35-year-old Milwaukee Brewers outfielder hit 332nd career homer in game against Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday
By JTA and ToI Staff
Hank Greenberg batting for the Detroit Tigers in 1935. (TSN Archives/Getty Images, via JTA)
February 5, 2019, 9:32 am
Baseball legend Hank Greenberg’s bat sells for over $25,000
Auction house doesn’t say who took home the bat, signed by 34 teammates of the ‘Hebrew Hammer’ from the 1937 Detroit Tigers
By Marcy Oster
A Hank Greenberg bat from 1937 is up for auction. (Leland's via JTA)
January 31, 2019, 5:44 am
Hank Greenberg’s bat is up for auction
Jewish baseball legend’s wood bat, which was signed by the 1937 Detroit Tigers, expected to fetch $8,000
By JTA
Jackie Robinson in 1950. (Public domain)
June 13, 2017, 3:31 am
How (some) Jews across the US rooted for baseball’s first black player
70 years after Jackie Robinson hit the field, new books and exhibits show how the sport’s Jewish fans and players shared his pain
By Rich Tenorio
Hank Greenberg batting for the Detroit Tigers in 1935. (TSN Archives/Getty Images, via JTA)
June 2, 2017, 6:03 pm
How Hank Greenberg took on Hitler in the summer of 1938
‘I came to feel that if I, as a Jew, hit a home run, I was hitting one against Hitler,’ his new biographer quotes Hall of Famer saying that year. In 1941, he put the game aside and enlisted
By Elaine Durbach
Dolph Schayes, circa 1951. (Wikimedia Commons)
December 12, 2015, 4:03 am
Dolph Schayes, Jewish basketball star, dies at 87
Hailed as the Sandy Koufax of his sport, the former pro succumbs to terminal cancer; funeral set for Monday
By JTA
Jewish educator Yoni Kaiser-Blueth, right, with incoming George Washington University freshman Yonah Bromberg Gaber at a recent Washington Nationals game, said that Sandy Koufax’s Yom Kippur decision 'resonates especially today.' (Hillel Kuttler/JTA)
September 26, 2015, 8:29 am
Why generations of American Jews won’t bat on Shabbos
Sandy Koufax sitting out a World Series game on Yom Kippur still resonates with Jewish youth 50 years later
By Hillel Kuttler
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
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
A baseball signed by Sandy Koufax is displayed in the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. (photo credit: Courtesy National Museum of American Jewish History/JTA)
April 29, 2013, 3:58 am
Retrieving baseball memorabilia from attics and memory banks
The curator for the National Museum of American Jewish History wants to hear about your relationship with America’s national pastime
By Hillel Kuttler
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
Adam Greenberg, who was hit in the head in his first and only Major League plate appearance with the Chicago Cubs in 2005, is one of more than 140 Jewish Major Leaguers. (photo credit: 'Jewish Major Leaguers'/via JTA)
April 1, 2012, 4:48 am
Talkin’ baseball
Jewish Major Leaguers and why we care about them
By Peter Ephross
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