EPISODE · Apr 26, 2021 · 16 MIN

HANK GREENBERG

from The Jewish Lives Podcast · host Yale University Press, Jewish, biography, Hank Greenberg, Judaism, baseball, Detroit Tigers

Hank Greenberg was a baseball legend. Mark Kurlansky, author of the Jewish Lives biography Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want to Be One, offers a robust exploration of the slugger's Bronx boyhood, his spectacular discipline as an aspiring ballplayer, and the cultural context of virulent anti-Semitism in which his career played out.

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