The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998) Even if the old joke is not true — if the thinnest book in the English language is not really "Great Jewish Sports Legends” — then chapter one has still got to be about the courageous Detroit Tigers first baseman Hank Greenberg. This stirring documentary chronicles the future Hall of Famer’s breakthrough years with the Tigers, when as the first Jewish sports superstar in U.S. history — Greenberg refused to play ball on Yom Kippur in 1934 — he endured a torrent of anti-Semitism.
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