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Items with the tag:

baseball

Chil­dren’s
Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
Sarah Kapit
Non­fic­tion
Tough Luck: Sid Luck­man, Mur­der, Inc., and the Rise of the Mod­ern NFL
R. D. Rosen
Non­fic­tion
The Jew­ish Base­ball Card Book
Bob Wechsler, Peter McDonald, & Martin Abramowitz
Chil­dren’s
The Spy Who Played Baseball
Car­rie Jones
Non­fic­tion
Get Up: The Art of Perseverance
Adam Green­berg
Non­fic­tion
Dis­tilled: A Mem­oir of Fam­i­ly, Sea­gram, Base­ball, and Philanthropy
Charles Bronfman with Howard Green
Chil­dren’s
The Base­ball Hag­gadah: A Fes­ti­val of Free­dom and Spring­time in 15 Innings
Sharon G. Forman; Lisa J. Teitelbaum, illus.
Essay

Anivut

Mort Zachter is the author of the recent­ly pub­lished book Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life. Today he writes for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil about why he, a Jew­ish man,…
Mort Zachter
March 3, 2015
Non­fic­tion
Called Out but Safe: A Base­ball Umpire’s Journey
Al Clark & Dan Schlossberg
Non­fic­tion
The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Rose­boro Turned Base­bal­l’s Ugli­est Brawl into a Sto­ry of For­give­ness and Redemption
John Rosen­gren
Essay

A Mirac­u­lous Base­ball Team

Ear­li­er this week, Charles S. Sher­man wrote about a life-alter­ing event and how he’s han­dled the chal­lenge. His book, The Bro­ken and the Whole: Dis­cov­er­ing Joy…
Charles S. Sherman
February 26, 2014
Non­fic­tion
Hank Green­berg: The Hero of Heroes
John Rosen­gren
Essay

Semit­ic Squads

Ear­li­er this week, Marc Tra­cy chal­lenged Jew­ish sports fans to a lit­tle quiz and wrote about Jews in sports and Hol­ly­wood. He has been blog­ging here all week for…
Marc Tra­cy
November 16, 2012
Recommended Reading

Jews and Baseball

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterAtten­tion World Series fans: Check out our ​“Jews and Base­ball” read­ing list. Select titles are below, and the full list can be found…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
October 22, 2012
Non­fic­tion
Jew­ish Major Lea­guers in Their Own Words: Oral His­to­ries of 23 Players
Peter Ephross with Martin Abramowitz
Non­fic­tion
Branch Rick­ey: Base­bal­l’s Fero­cious Gentleman
Lee Lowenfish

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