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	Hank Greenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Detroit draft board initially classified Greenberg as 4F for "flat feet." Rumors that he had bribed the board and concern that he would be likened to Jack Dempsey, who received negative publicity for failure to serve in World War I, led Greenberg to be reexamined, and he was found fit to serve.
		Greenberg was not the first Jewish man to play major-league baseball, but by the end of his career he had become by far the best Jewish player ever, and the first major Jewish star.
		Greenberg was subject to the most vicious ethnic taunting seen in the sport prior to the arrival of Jackie Robinson in 1947, yet Greenberg nevertheless became a first-rank ballplayer and an icon among Jews in the United States.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hank_Greenberg (1284 words)

	Hank Greenberg: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg (January 1, 1911 - September 4, 1986), nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank", was an American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) player in Major League Baseball (additional info and facts about Major League Baseball).
		Greenberg played first base for the Pirates for 1947, and was one of the few opposing players to publicly welcome Jackie Robinson (United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972)) to the majors.
		Greenberg died in Beverly Hills, California (additional info and facts about Beverly Hills, California) and his remains were entombed at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery (additional info and facts about Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery) in Culver City, California (additional info and facts about Culver City, California).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/hank_greenberg.htm (1176 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hank Greenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the insurance mogul nicknamed Hank Greenberg, see Maurice R. Greenberg January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
		Greenberg was the first major leaguer to enlist in the Army, even though he had been excused from serving.
		Hank Greenberg was not the first Jewish ballplayer, but he was the first Jewish ballplayer to keep his last name when he entered the game.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hank-Greenberg (1049 words)

	Hank Greenberg
		Greenberg's career.412 on-base average (27th all time, behind Gehrig's.447 and Foxx's.428) and.605 slugging percentage (fifth all-time, behind Gehrig's.632 and Foxx's.609), don't suffer much by comparison to those of Gehrig and Foxx, and yet he never led the league in hitting or on-base average; he only led in slugging once.
		Greenberg tried out for the New York Giants and impressed manager John McGraw, always on the lookout for a Jewish star to attract New York's large Jewish population, with his hitting; but McGraw decided that Hank was too clumsy and uncoordinated to help the Giants.
		Hank turned down a lucrative offer from the Yankees, realizing there would be little chance of making the ML with Lou Gehrig on first for the Bombers, and also rejected overtures from the Washington Senators, who had Joe Judge.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /HOF/Greenberg.html (930 words)

	The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
		Hank played for the Detroit Tigers and in 1934 the city of Detroit was a hotbed of anti-Semitism.
		Hank believed that the most important baseball statistic for a hitter was not home runs or a high batting average, but RBI's (runs batted in).
		Hank Greenberg returned to the WWII effort after the bombing of Pearl Harbor to serve a second term of military service.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /2000/id220.htm (694 words)

	dallasobserver.com \| \| Film \| The Moses of baseball \| 1999-04-22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But Greenberg's roles as baseball great and Jewish hero were never separated; he was forever known as the first Jew in the major leagues, even though other Jews came before him and played under goyish names.
		He was, as filmmaker Aviva Kempner often reminds us in her touching, trenchant documentary The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, the Jackie Robinson of the Jews--the man who withstood hatred on his way to becoming one of the game's best first basemen and power hitters.
		In the end, The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg is precisely what a documentary ought to be: engaging and revelatory, turning forgotten footnotes and discarded minutiae into the stuff of riveting drama and poignant laughs--which is especially notable, since Greenberg didn't live a particularly laborious life.
	dallasobserver.com /issues/1999-04-22/film3.html (738 words)

	ESPN Classic - The first "Hammerin' Hank"
		For most of his career Hank Greenberg was presumed to be carrying the fate of the Jewish people on his shoulders.
		Greenberg took his first step toward the Hall of Fame when he batted.339 with 39 homers, 139 RBI and a major league-leading 63 doubles in 1934.
		Greenberg followed suit but remained as general manager for the rest of the season and was a vice president for several years.
	espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/Greenberg_Hank.html (1329 words)

	The Tigers' 'Hammerin' Hank' Greenberg
		Greenberg, just returned from four years in the military, showed the war had taken none of his edge away as he drove the ball deep into the left field stands for a dramatic grand slam home run, winning the game 6-3 and clinching the Tigers' seventh American League pennant.
		Greenberg was born on New York's Lower East Side on Jan. 11, 1911, to David and Sarah Greenberg.
		Greenberg died of cancer in 1986 at the age of 75.
	info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=129&category=sports (2239 words)

	The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998)
		Hank Greenberg, the first Jewish baseball player to not change his name to a Christian one usually gets forgotten.
		Greenberg gained popularity by often hitting one or two home runs a game, and leading his team to the pennant.
		While Hank Greenberg was a very tall (6'4'') and gawky man, he was not a very religious one.
	www.moviepie.com /rent/hank_greenberg.htm (594 words)

	Hank Greenberg -- Hit 58 home runs for the Detroit Tigers in 1938
		Hank Greenberg played less than 10 full seasons in the Major Leagues, but he certainly made a statement.
		Greenberg was a massive player for his time, standing 6'4 and weighing 215 pounds.
		Greenberg, the MVP in 1935, finished the season with a.328 average, 36 home runs and 170 RBI.
	www.historicbaseball.com /players/g/greenberg_hank.html (1154 words)

	BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project.
		Greenberg felt the pressure while chasing Ruth's home run record and became increasingly aware that he was a hero to the Jewish population who identified with him and saw themselves as not helpless.
		Hank was told that it was cancer and that an immediate operation was needed.
		Greenberg was a "super star" baseball player, a wealthy, self-made man, but most of all, he lived life to the fullest and never backed off from anyone or anything.
	bioproj.sabr.org /bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=702&pid=5439 (6194 words)

	Hank Greenberg Movie
		Particularly after the Holocaust, Greenberg's physical strength--in contrast to the images of skeletal, starving Jews in the concentration camps--and his courage to withstand anti-Semitism in the baseball stadiums, roused Jews throughout the country to root for him and kvell (swell with pride).
		Greenberg grew up in an Orthodox household in the Bronx, and his mother, the film points out, became the Queen of the City due to her famous and talented son.
		When Greenberg chose not to play in a crucial pennant game out of respect for Yom Kippur, he was startled to find himself greeted with a standing ovation from the congregation as he entered the synagogue.
	www.jewishsports.com /reflections/greenberg_movie.htm (691 words)

	Hank Greenberg
		Henry Benjamin Greenberg was born in an Orthodox household in 1911.
		Fans and rabbis debated whether Greenberg, who by his accomplishments on the field was winning acceptance for Jews among non-Jewish Americans, should play on the High Holy Days.
		In 1954, Hank Greenberg became the first Jewish player to be elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/greenberg.html (884 words)

	Amazon.com: The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (2000) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Greenberg, the son of immigrant parents, was a beacon of hope to Jews.
		If the point of "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg" is lost on the viewer, then history itself put the writing on the wall when the owner of the Detroit Tigers misunderstood the meaning of an old photograph of Greenberg and traded his star to the Pittsburgh Pirates for the 1947 season.
		Many people, famous and not, are shown speaking of their admiration for Hank Greenberg as a player and as a man. The video emphasizes heavily his role as the first openly Jewish player in major league baseball, the bigotry he faced, and the grace with which he responded to it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005O5L9?v=glance (2745 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hank Greenberg out as AIG chairman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NEW YORK (AP) — The man who built American International Group (AIG) into one of the world's largest insurers, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, is retiring as chairman, two weeks after board members ousted him as chief executive because of intensifying regulatory probes into the company's past financial transactions.
		Greenberg — who will end his 37-year career atop AIG later this week — departs as he and the company face an expanding probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission and New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
		While Greenberg is considered a pioneer in the insurance world — shaping AIG from a small life insurance company to a global insurer with revenues approaching $100 billion — his presence at the company had become seen as an obstacle for AIG in settling the regulatory inquiries.
	www.usatoday.com /money/perfi/retirement/2005-03-29-greenberg-ap_x.htm (640 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Entertainment Guide
		It's true that Greenberg isn't remembered with the same fervor as the great DiMaggio, a rough contemporary, though he only hit for a little less average (.313 vs. DiMag's.325) and a few fewer homers (the 331 vs. 361) over a similarly war-interrupted 13-year career.
		Hank himself--he died wealthy and suntanned in 1986--appears from old filmed interviews, and there's such a vitality to him it suggests another theme, which might be called the recovery of a forgotten Jewish past.
		I say this because the mature Hank, his sideburns flecked with gray, his hair full, his face long and strong, his resort wear beautifully tailored, exudes such power and strength it made me think of another tough Jew: Greenberg has something of the charisma and sheer physical beauty of the gangster Bugsy Siegel.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/entertainment/movies/reviews/lifeandtimesofhankgreenberghunter.htm (859 words)

	ABC News: Hank Greenberg Retires From AIG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Greenberg who will end his 37-year career atop AIG later this week departs as he and the company face an expanding probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission and New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
		Greenberg joined the company in 1960, and took over as its head eight years later when founder C.V. Starr died.
		While Greenberg is considered a pioneer in the insurance world shaping AIG from a small life insurance company to a global insurer with revenues approaching $100 billion his presence at the company had become seen as an obstacle for AIG in settling the regulatory inquiries.
	abcnews.go.com /Business/wireStory?id=621999 (408 words)

	City Pages - Baseball Moses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Greenberg's brilliant, if abbreviated, major-league career was a model of inspiration, assimilation, and--not incidentally--accomplishment for millions of first- and second-generation American Jews in the Thirties and Forties, when anti-Semitism was rampant both in America and abroad.
		Greenberg, though hardly a natural--he was huge, graceless, and clumsy in the field--was possessed of tremendous strength and an obsessive work ethic; in the film, some of his old teammates recall how he would take hours of extra batting and fielding practice, even paying stadium workers to shag balls for him.
		Greenberg had the constitution--and, perhaps more important, the talent--to thrive in an era when his unabashed Judaism made him the constant target of racially motivated abuse from opposing players and fans, as well as a vocal contingent of anti-Semites in his home park.
	www.citypages.com /databank/21/1019/article8740.asp (1435 words)

	The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
		Hank consoled Jackie that year, pushed him to persevere, and assured him things would work out for Jackie in the end as they had for Hank.
		It is split evenly between discussions of Greenberg's baseball exploits and his accepted role as model for a generation of Jewish children.
		It was ironic that Greenberg was the recognized star of the Detroit Tigers during most of that decade, leading them to the World Series in 1934-5 and 1940.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/HankGreenberg.htm (650 words)

	Hank Greenberg \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Greenberg tried out for the New York Giants but Giants Manager John McGraw, although constantly on the lookout for a Jewish star to attract New York's large Jewish population and impressed by Greenberg's powerful hitting, decided Hank was too clumsy and uncoordinated to help the Giants.
		Hank turned down a lucrative offer from the Yankees, realizing there would be little chance of making the ML with Lou Gehrig on first for the Bombers.
		Greenberg and Bill Veeck are expected to run the new LA club in the AL.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/G/Greenberg_Hank.stm (3818 words)

	ipedia.com: Hank Greenberg Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg, nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank", was an American player in Major League Baseball.
		Born in New York City, Greenberg was not the first Jewish man to play major-league basebal...
		Greenberg played first base for the Pirates for 1947, during which he was remarkable for being one of the few opposing players to give encouragement to Jackie Robinson during his ordeal.
	www.ipedia.com /hank_greenberg.html (846 words)

	UJC - AJHS: Hank Greenberg: Baseball's First Jewish Superstar
		Born into an Orthodox Bronx household in 1911, by the time Greenberg reached high school he stood six-foot three and was an all-city athlete in soccer and basketball.
		Greenberg came up with his own compromise: he played on Rosh Hashanah and hit two home runs that won the game, 2-1.
		Greenberg came back the next day and struck a home run that clinched the pennant for the Tigers, but they lost the World Series to the Cardinals in seven games.
	www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=80849 (884 words)

	Celebrating Hank Greenberg \| BaseballLibrary.com
		His name was Henry Benjamin Greenberg, but he was better known as Hank Greenberg.
		"The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg," a documentary film by Aviva Kempner is a loving and beautifully done tribute to a great player and goes into an in depth treatment about all he had to overcome to prevail.
		But Greenberg at six-foot-four with broad shoulders and big muscles feared no bigot, never backed away - whether it was from a spring training fight on a bus with Detroit pitcher Rip Sewell or an entire Chicago White Sox team.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/submit/Frommer_Harvey5.stm (614 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Hank Greenberg
		Noted as the first Jewish baseball star, Hank Greenberg became a hero to a generation of Jewish fans and led the way for greater Jewish opportunities in baseball.
		Greenberg fought over four years in World War II, and set a precedent after the war by becoming the first Jewish owner and general manager in baseball.
		Greenberg's popularity changed America's perspective on Jews, and he has come to symbolize a hero who overcame prejudice to lead his baseball team, his country, and his faith.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200484 (220 words)

	Hank Greenberg Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Hank Greenberg was born on Sunday, January 1 1911, in New York, New York.
		Greenberg was 19 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 14, 1930, with the Detroit Tigers.
		His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Hank Greenberg baseball stats page.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=greenha01 (332 words)

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