Hank Greenberg; Baseball to God; Ewing’s Perfect Game
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Hank Greenberg was the son of Romanian Jews who spoke Yiddish at home. As a Detroit Tiger, he was dropped into a state whose industry was controlled by one anti-Semite (Henry Ford) and whose airwaves were poisoned by another (Father Charles Coughlin).
He hit 58 home runs in 1938, 331 overall, and finished with a career batting average of .313.