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Jewish Jocks - An Unorthodox Hall of Fame (Paperback)
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If you were a Bar Mitzvah boy in the postwar years, you probably
received a gift called Great Jews in Sports. Your goy friends
enjoyed a good snicker when they saw it on the shelf above your
desk, but you coveted the volume. It not only supplied a pantheon
for you to worship; it served as a refutation of all those cheap
stereotypes about effeminate, bookish Jews that followed you to Pop
Warner try-outs, and that you were convinced resulted in a
condescending ten-steps-forward outfield shift during your turn
at-bat. So it is with a humble spirit of deference that editors
Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy propose its successor: Jewish Jocks:
An Unothodox Hall of Fame, a collection of biographical musings on
the most influential Jews in sports. The sports figures profiled in
Jewish Jocks go beyond athletes to include coaches, broadcasters,
owners, trainers and even statisticians (in the finite universe of
Jewish Jocks, they count!) Contributors include some of today's
most celebrated writers, such as New Yorker editor David Remnick;
novelists Jonathan Safran Foer and Booker-prize winner Howard
Jacobson; sports writer Buzz Bissinger; economist Larry Summers;
columnist David Brooks; journalists Jane Leavy, Steven Pinker and
Dahlia Lithwick writing on figures such as Howad Cosell, Art
Shamsky, Kerri Strug, Harold Solomon, Sandy Koufax, Shirley
Povitch, and many, many more.
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