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Posted on 10/13/2003 11:07:13 AM PDT by Radix
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:10:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
NEWTON -- About the only criticism you can muster of Martin Abramowitz's crowd-pleasing idea -- to produce a set of baseball cards of all 142 Jewish major leaguers from 1871 to 2003 -- is that its thoroughness kills the possibility of trades. After all, if everyone owns every card, how can someone offer to swap, say, a Mike "Superjew" Epstein for a Moe "The Rabbi of Swat" Solomon?
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"The early Jewish players were using baseball as an entry point into the American experience,"
Seven-foot Jews in
the NBA slam-dunking!
My alarm clock rings.
Seven-foot Jews in
the NBA slam-dunking!
My alarm clock rings.
LOL!
Did you know that before the NBA integrated it was heavily Jewish? Really. This is not so well known because the NBA wasn't such a big deal back then. They weren't seven footers to be sure.
The only Jewish boxing champ I can think of is Maxwell "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, light-heavyweight sometime in the 1930s. No one ever called him "a credit to his race" as they did his contemporary Joe Louis.
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