re jewish baseball players in article apr midway uchicago edu thf midway uchicago edu writes in article qkkodinn f jhunix hcf jhu edu pablo jhunix hcf jhu edu pablo a iglesias writes in article apr lafibm lafayette edu vb lafibm lafayette edu vb writes just wondering a friend and i were talking the other day and we were for some reason trying to come up with names of jewish baseball players past and present we weren t able to come up with much except for sandy koufax somebody stankowitz and maybe john lowenstein can anyone come up with any more i know it sounds pretty lame to be racking our brains over this but humor us thanks for your help hank greenberg would have to be the most famous because his jewish faith actually affected his play missing late season or was it world series games because of yom kippur the other jewish hof er is rod carew who converted did he ever really convert he married a jewish woman but i ve never heard him say he converted elliot maddox on the other hand lowenstein is jewish as well as montana s only representative to the major leagues undeserving cy young award winner steve stone is jewish between stone koufax ken holtzman might have the wrong pitcher i m thinking of the one who threw a no hitter in both the al and nl and big ed reulbach that s quite a starting rotation moe berg can catch harry steinfeldt the b in the tinkers evers chance infield yep holtzman saul rogovin won an era title in or so before blowing out the arm is stanky jewish or is that just a dave cohen kinda misinterpretation whatever doesn t look like he stuck around the majors too long i d be surprised btw they may just be shopping gallego around to make room for as roger
