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    10 Jewish Sports Icons
    (Aish, 2024-02-04) Miller, Mark
    A list and brief description of ten pioneering Jewish athletes and their impact in areas including baseball, swimming, boxing and gymnastics. Click on the link to read the article.
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    10 Jewish baseball players from history who you may not know (but should)
    (Jewish Telgraphic Agancy (JTA), 2022-08-11) Friedman, Caleb
    The author notes that most baseball fans are familiar with the famed Jewish players, Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg, both of whom are in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He lists ten less well-known Jewish baseball players whose careers spanned much of the 20th century. Click on the link above to read the article.
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    Hank Greenberg
    (Society for American Baseball Research, 2022) Ferkovich, Scott
    Hank Greenberg was a baseball player who spent most of his thirteen-year career with the Detroit Tigers. Over the course of his career, Greenberg his 331 home runs with 1,276 RBIs and had a 313 batting average. As a Tiger, he was in four World Series and the team won two of them. He was election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1956. The article describes his career, his attitudes towards his Judaism and the confrontations he had with antisemitism from both players and fans. Click on the link above to see the article.
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    Mark Spitz
    (International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 2020) International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
    Mark Spitz competed in the Olympic games. In 1968 in the Olympic games in Mexico, he won four medals in swimming, two golds, a silver and a bronze. He is best known for his performance in the 1972 Olympics in Munich, where he won seven gold medals. Click on the link above to read about Spitz's Olympic career.
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    The Story of Central New York’s Most Decorated Olympian, Myer Prinstein
    (Onondaga Historical Association, 2020) Onondaga Historical Association
    Myer Prinstein, from Syracuse, NY, won four Olympic gold medals in Track and Field in the 1900 Olympics in Paris. He was posthumously inducted into International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Israel in 1982, the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2000, and in 2008 he was inducted into Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame. Click on the link above to read the article.
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    Sandy Koufax
    (National Baseball Hall of Fame, 2017) National Baseball Hall of Fame
    A short biography from the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Click on the link above to access.
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    Myth and fact part of legacy from Sandy Koufax's Yom Kippur choice
    (Sports Illustrated, 2015-09-23) Rosengren, John
    A Sports Illustrated article about Sandy Koufax's decision not to pitch a World Series game on Yom Kippur. Click on the link above to access the article.