Hank Greenberg

The history of Jews in baseball and the weirdest season of all time

Official MLB historian, John Thorn, spoke with JTA earlier this season about the most unusual of seasons, his work and the connection between the American game and American Jews.

|BySTEPHEN SILVER/JTA
Mike Minor of the Oakland Athletics walks through the stands that are filled with cardboard cutouts during a game against the Houston Astros at RingCentral Coliseum in Oakland, Sept. 10, 2020. The cutouts have become a fixture for most teams this season.
From left: Jackie Robinson, Hank Greenberg, Zach Banner and DeSean Jackson

What Hank Greenberg’s friendship with Jackie Robinson can teach us today

Who would have imagined that some 70 years after the Greenberg-Robinson exchange, it would be an African-American athlete who would call out his own community on prejudice against Jews?

|ByRABBI ELLIOT COSGROVE/JTA