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Interesting, never heard of this.
This would be the second incarnation of the KKK, put down by President Grant. A maturing of the Mary Phagan League, established around the time of the Leo Frank lynching (1915) in Georgia to persecute Jews and Catholics. The soon learned persecuting blacks was more popular and went to the Klan identification, which was popular with America's Chief Executive.
Still, lynching Jews, a new Klan with the support of a President (probably a Republican, wasn't he) and playing baseball only a decade later.
Who knows, do the al Qaida guys like baseball? Perhaps a summit is in the future, but they don't drink beer.
Still, lynching Jews, a new Klan with the support of a President (probably a Republican, wasn't he) and playing baseball only a decade later.
I don't know if you're being facetious here, SJackson, but about the only President with whom you might say the Klan was popular was the one in office in 1915, Democrat Woodrow Wilson, who was born and raised in Georgia. During Wilson's term, there was a screening of the newly released silent film Birth of a Nation - which featured the Klan in a positive light - at the White House.
The Republican president in office in 1926 at the time of the baseball game mentioned in this thread was Calvin Coolidge, who was most definitely not an anti-Semite nor racist, nor a KKK supporter. (You might want to read the biography "Coolidge," by Amity Shlaes, released last year.)
As far as "lynchings" of Jews are concerned, the only one known in American history was Leo Frank in 1915.
Please see my post # 9.