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Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want To Be One (Jewish Lives) Yet, as Kurlansky writes, he was the quintessential secular Jew, and to. His calmly poised body seemed to have some special set of springs with a trigger release that snapped his arms and swept the b
| Title | : | Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want To Be One (Jewish Lives) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.68 (294 Votes) |
| Id Book | : | 0300136609 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2011-03-29 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
One of the reasons baseball fans so love the sport is that it involves certain physical acts of beauty. And one of the most beautiful sights in the history of baseball was Hank Greenberg's swing. His calmly poised body seemed to have some special set of springs with a trigger release that snapped his arms and swept the bat through the air with the clean speed and strength of a propeller. But what is even more extraordinary than his grace and his power is that in Detroit of 1934, his swing—or its absence—became entwined with American Jewish history. Though Hank Greenberg was one of the first players to challenge Babe Ruth's single-season record of sixty home runs, it was the game Greenberg did not play for which he is best remembered. With his decision to sit out a 1934 game between his Tigers and the New York Yankees because it fell on Yom Kippur, Hank Greenberg became a hero to Jews throughout America. Yet, as Kurlansky writes, he was the quintessential secular Jew, and to
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