Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Hank Greenberg - #70 finished

 I didn't realize the numbers that Hank Greenberg put up in the majors until I checked baseball-reference after reading this book.  Really impressive with homers and RBI.  This book was more focused on the person though than so much about the baseball and numbers.  Greenberg was raised Jewish but didn't practice as an adult.  He famously didn't play on Yom Kippur one of his first seasons though and became a Jewish hero.  From reading the book, it said Greenberg had started writing his autobiography--I am guessing family probably gave these notes to this author to write up the book long after.  This was part of a Jewish Lives series.  Interesting person and interesting times in our country.

There are 2 WL for this book in PBS so will get posted & sent off at some point.

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