re jewish ballplayers your list of jewish ballplayers includes levi samuel meyerle son of jacob and margaret meyerle although that sounds like a jewish name meyerle s surviving relatives say he wasn t jewish according to nineteenth century stars published by sabr in incidentally long levi he was foot batted in the first season of the national association the first pro league needless to say he hasn t been topped yet of course the na is not considered a major league by officialdom over five seasons meyerle hit in the na he also played for the first three seasons of the nl hitting phil brown aka pb csc albany edu
