Hank Greenberg

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Society for American Baseball Research
Ferkovich, Scott

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2022
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https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/hank-greenberg/

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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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Greenberg, Hank, Baseball, Sports, United States
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