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Judaism a triumphant All-American face in an age of Nazi Bund meetings and anti-Semitic rants.
Jackie Robinson summed him up best. At the start of his career the first black major leaguer took the field against Greenberg whose baseball days were ending. Greenberg paused during the game to approach the opposing player, tell him he knew something of what he was enduring and commend him for his guts.
Robinson's recorded verdict: "Hank Greenberg is all class.''
The lanky 6-foot-4 champ drove in 187 runs in 1937 and in 1938 he hit 58 home runs, just two shy of Babe Ruth's record. His career numbers include 331 homers and a lifetime batting average of .313 despite spending four years flying missions over the Himalayas during World War II.
As befits a Jewish hero, "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg" is laced with humor. Rookie Greenberg was permitted to play on Rosh Hashana, thanks to a rabbi's interpretation of the Talmud. The rabbi later admitted that the passage in question referred to Romans, not Jews. Nobody complained.
Greenberg put on such a spectacular New Year show that the next morning's paper, in the hometown of Jew-hating titan Henry Ford, ran a front-page congratulations in Hebrew. (94 minutes, not rated but contains nothing objectionable)
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