Jewish Baseball Players in 1973 • Steve Greenberg's Invitation
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less he gives a good showing
There will be eight Jewish in spring training. He is
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ballplayers in the major Steve Greenberg, Hank
leagues this year. One is a Greenberg's son.
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Steve is 24, and is 6 feet
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Greenberg is in training with
the Texas Rangers, who also
have another Jewish player
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not play on Rosh Hashana
and Yom Kippur. Ron is 24,
and the Yankees feel he will
be one of the biggest stars
in baseball in the not too dis-
tant future.
Other Jewish players in the
American League are pitch-
ers Ken Holtzman of the Oak-
land Athletics, Steve Stone
of the Chicago White Sox,
and shortstop Rick Auerbach
of the Milwaukee Brewers.
The National League has
two Jewish players, outfield-
ers Norm Miller of the Hous-
ton Astros, and Richie
Scheinblum of the Cincinnati
Reds.
Stephen David Greenberg
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Fa m e r Hang Greenberg.
Steve Greenberg is one of
many young players on the
Texas Ranger roster, but be-
cause of his father and a sur-
prisingly fast rise within the
Ranger organization, his is a
special story.
Steve's a 6'2", 195-pound,
24-year-old and had a late
start in baseball because he
was getting a degree from
Yale. When he signed a con-
tract, there wasn't a scout in
the system who rated him a
major league prospect.
Now, three years later, the
organization's most respected
minor league manager, Del
Wilber, figures Greenberg is
the answer to the club's third
base problems. Maybe not
this year, because of a lack
of seasoning, but in the very
near future, he'll take over,
Wilber claims.
Greenberg is known as a
guy with an ever-present
friendly smile and gritty de-
termination. "He's probably
the hardest worker I've ever
been associated with in base-
ball." Wilber, who managed
him last season 'at Denver,
said, "Always the first on
the field and the last to
leave."
Steve has this to say, "I've
played in places like Geneva
and Pittsfield and Burlington
the last few years, and peo-
ple were always asking me
if I can hit like my old man.
I tell them you wouldn't see
me beating around down here
in the bushes if I could.
"Hang Greenberg was a
great hitter. I happen to be
his son, who has average
talent.
"Because I'm Hank's son,
people ask me if there's extra
pressure, but really there's
none at all, from either my
father or my teammates. I
certainly wasn't pushed into
being a baseball player. I
didn't even play until high
school. I skipped Little
League and all that. In fact,
my father jokingly tells me
all the time that he didn't
send me to Yale to be a ball-
player.
"As far as my teammate's,
I'll bet that 90 per cent of the
guys I've played with the last
three years didn't even know
who Hank Greenberg was,
much less what he did. It
amuses me. People don't be-
lieve it, but it's true. Like I
don't 'go around advertising
who my dad is, but the word
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28-Friday, March 23, 1973
will get out and I'll have guys
come up and say they heard
my father was a pretty good
player. They want to know
about him."
Manager Whitey Herzog is
in a pleasant predicament be-
cause of Steve's sudden de-
velopment. During spring
training he planned to look
almost exclusively at Joe Lo-
vitto, Bill McNulty and possi-
bly Jim Mason in an attempt
to fill the hole at third base.
Herzog says, "But I've got
to give Greenberg as much
playing time as those other
guys, because this kid has
got some good equipment,
and I like the way he works."
Steve Greenberg has an ex-
cellent chance of making the
team because he can also
play first base and the out-
field.
If Steve makes the team,
the Texas Rangers will be-
come the only b a 11 c lub with
two Jewish players, the other
being Steve's competitor at
first base Mike Epstein.
Prof. Liptzin Honors Laikin
In a syndicated review of
"Memoirs of a Practical
Dreamer" by Benjamin M.
Laikin, published by Bloch,
Prof. Solomon Liptzin of
American College in Jerusal-
em pays honor to the Detroit
author of the autobiography
in which he reconstructs his
life's experiences and com-
munal labors. Laikin's book
first appeared in Yiddish and
has just been published in an
English translation.
Dr. Liptzin describes the
recorded account of Laikin's
life in Russia, then in Barn:
more, Philadelphia and in the
Pennsylvania c o a 1 mines,
leading up to "his present
autumnal years in Detroit"
where he prospered, became
a leader in Labor Zionism, in
the Yiddish schools and many
other communal activities.
Dr. Liptzin states in his com-
ments "Often he met with
frustrations in these activi-
ties, since he did not see eye
to eye with the leaders of
Jewish national organizations
and was far too combative in
voicing his disagreements.
But he also found fulfillment
as he witnessed a dream
come true, Israel rearisen,
and his friends, the Labor
Zionists, at the helm of gov-
ernment in the new state.
"Though severe in his ap-
praisal of pompous pillars of
Jewish society, unveiling
their follies and failings,
Laikin does not gloss over
his own errors of judgment.
Self-educated and impelled
by ethical attitudes rooted in
the shtetl of his childhood
and boyhood, he now and then
let Utopian visions intrude
upon his practical work and
then paid the price in suffer-
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