Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Baseball, which you may remember
wrapped up its season this week, is the Chosen People’s Chosen
Sport.
The mythology is familiar: Like two other great American
institutions -- unions and public schools -- baseball helped
countless turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants assimilate into
the New World. “Don’t let your child grow up to be a stranger in
his own country,” the advice columnist for the Jewish Daily
Forward famously wrote in answer to the skeptical immigrant
father of one Jewish boy who wanted to play baseball.
