Ed Sherman and Jewishbaseballmuseum.com
By Ed Sherman and Jewishbaseballmuseum.com
-
Culture These Are The 7 Jewish Baseball Players To Watch In 2017
You have to admit that this is a good time for Jews in baseball. On the field, Team Israel’s strong showing was the talk of the World Baseball Classic. Meanwhile, Ian Kinsler played a key role on the U.S. team. While Alex Bregman had limited duty for the U.S., the star watch is on for…
-
Culture What Did Baseball Scouts Really Have To Say About Sandy Koufax?
If Sandy Koufax was a young prospect today, the teams would have reams of scouting data on him leading up to the MLB Draft Thursday. But it wasn’t that way in the 1950s when Koufax was pitching at the University of Cincinnati. In fact, there wasn’t even a draft back then. Thankfully, though, we do…
-
Culture Why Interviewing Sandy Koufax Made This Writer More Nervous Than Ever Before
Sportswriter Jeff Passan is long past the stage in his career when he feels anxious at the prospect of interviewing a famous athlete. But Sandy Koufax was different. It was a bucket list moment for Passan, the lead baseball writer for Yahoo Sports. A part of him felt as if he was back in Hebrew…
Most Popular
- 1
Forverts in English A Yiddish word I never expected to see on a license plate
- 2
News ‘No one’s allowed to talk to me’: At UW-Madison, trying — and failing — to talk about Israel
- 3
Fast Forward New poll: 13% of voters who switched support from Biden cite his Gaza policy
- 4
News A ‘quite religious’ anti-Zionist: Meet the Jewish Columbia student who wrangled the college newspaper’s opinion page
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture Nearly 4,000 Jews died at Jungfernhof, a Nazi camp in Latvia. This artist is fighting for a memorial to them.
-
Culture How a pair of visionary Jews found a link between Jewish and Native American cultures
-
Opinion Anti-Zionism forced us to withdraw from Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
-
Fast Forward Could a Jewish voter surge threaten Jamaal Bowman’s reelection?