Hank Greenberg

Hammerin' Hank Greenberg's career during the Golden Age of Baseball contains all the makings of a true American success story. As an extraordinary ball player, whose accomplishments rivaled those of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Greenberg's career was an inspiration to all and captured the headlines and admiration of sportswriters and fans alike. This is the humorous and nostalgic true story of how he became a beacon of hope as a true American hero.

Baseball is seen as the quintessentially American sport with good reason. Emerging by the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's most popular game, baseball provided each new wave of immigrants with an avenue into American culture. Jews And Baseball traces the Jewish involvement in the history of the sport from the game's earliest days, through the tumultuous war years to today's All-Star games.