Murray Greenberg
By Murray Greenberg
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Culture Baseball’s Jewiest Moment of All
In the top of the ninth inning of a game at Detroit’s Briggs Stadium between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Detroit Tigers on May 2, 1951, things looked bleak for the A’s. They trailed, 3-1, they had a runner on first base, and there were two outs. Manager Jimmy Dykes summoned Lou Limmer to pinch-hit…
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News The ‘Hebrew QB’ Is Hall of Famer
More than two decades after his death and half a century after he revolutionized the forward pass, Benjamin “Benny” Friedman — the so-called “Hebrew quarterback” — has been voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Friedman, the gridiron wizard from Cleveland’s Jewish ghetto whose unprecedented passing skills forever changed the game of football, was…
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