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The book tells how children of Jewish immigrants were galvanized by the exploits of one of their own, how Greenberg showed his coreligionists in those pre-World War II years that one could be both Jewish and 100-percent American. His book , The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First , is a national best seller. No Kvetching in Baseball | Washington Post ExpressLegendary Detroit Tigers slugger Hank Greenberg was a two-time MVP who nearly broke Babe Ruth ;s home run record when he hit 58 dingers in the 1938 season. The film relates how when the big slugger entered the synagogue, a fan said, “My God, nobody ever saw a Jew that big.” The congregation gave . The letter said that Frick as commissioner of all organized and unorganized baseball had become aware of the travesty at Northwestern ;s School of Law and had appointed Hank Greenberg umpire to put an end to the chicanery. He was just as famous for being Jewish, and for refusing to . Horvitz, The Big Book of Jewish Baseball (SP Books , 2001), p. This revealing autobiography of slugger Hank Greenberg (1911-1986) makes for excellent reading.. Louis writers clearly realized (in covering Maris), Maris was not a slugger at all. Many believe of all the players who came before Robinson, Greenberg was subjected to the most racial . But the slugger from the World Series-winning Detroit Tiger teams of the 1930s and ;40s deserves a place along . Greenberg, Detroit ;s own . He was a premier slugger who plied his trade with the Detroit Tigers from 1930 to 1946 and with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947. Greenberg still ranks as one of the most fearsome sluggers in. Hank Greenberg: Hall-of-Fame Slugger [Ira Berkow] on Amazon.com. They probably . of The award-winning documentary The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg , which has recently been re-released with additional material; and Steven Greenberg, son of the late Hall of Fame slugger and a former assistant to the Commissioner of Baseball.Baseball ;s Jewish slugger : Hank Greenberg . The slugger fully understood his