Most fans don't know how far the Jewish presence in baseball
extends beyond a few famous players such as Greenberg, Rosen,
Koufax, Holtzman, Green, Ausmus, Youkilis, Braun, and Kinsler. In
fact, that presence extends to the baseball commissioner Bud Selig,
labor leaders Marvin Miller and Don Fehr, owners Jerry Reinsdorf
and Stuart Sternberg, officials Theo Epstein and Mark Shapiro,
sportswriters Murray Chass, Ross Newhan, Ira Berkow, and Roger
Kahn, and even famous Jewish baseball fans like Alan Dershowitz and
Barney Frank. The life stories of these and many others, on and off
the field, have been compiled from nearly fifty in-depth interviews
and arranged by decade in this edifying and entertaining work of
oral and cultural history. In American Jews and America's Game each
person talks about growing up Jewish and dealing with Jewish
identity, assimilation, intermarriage, future viability, religious
observance, anti-Semitism, and Israel. Each tells about being in
the midst of the colorful pantheon of players who, over the past
seventy-five years or more, have made baseball what it is. Their
stories tell, as no previous book has, the history of the
larger-than-life role of Jews in America's pastime.
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