Watched an interesting movie the other night on Detroit Tigers' slugger Hank Greenberg. He was the first Jewish player of note in the majors, and he played in the 1930s and 1940s.
The biographical information and his career stats are fairly common knowledge. What opened my eyes was a comparison between the amount of abuse he took because he was Jewish and the amount of abuse Jackie Robinson took because he was a Negro. Greenberg's career finished the same year that Robinson broke the color barrier.
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