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predecessors had faced — and
faced them alone.
According to May Abrams,
wife of outfielder Cal Abrams
(who played with Brooklyn,
Cincinnati, Pittsburgh,
Baltimore and the Chicago
White Sox) it was tougher for
Jews than for blacks.
"When they saw the blacks
coming in — and the blacks
were coming in droves — it
was a big money-making
time when hockey
defenseman Larry Zeidel (of
Detroit, Chicago and
Philadelphia) went after a
Boston Bruin with his stick
swinging, after the other man
called out from the bench:
"You're next for the ovens,
Zeidel."
The late Max Zaslofsky, a
four-time All Star with the
basketball Knicks,
remembers when he played in
the early days of the National
Basketball Association.
"You never had too many
Jewish ball players," he said,
"and the thing that made me
a little prouder was the fact
that I was Jewish, and that I
was more or less blazing a
trail for future Jewish
players. I was proud that I
was a Jew playing basketball
and probably one of three in
the game at that time."
Dick Savitt, the only Jew to
win the men's singles title in
tennis at Wimbledon, in
1951, talked about the fact
that most Jewish athletes are
remembered no so much as
record-breaking athletes who
happened to be Jewish, but
rather as Jews who happened
to be athletes.
"If I wasn't Jewish, and just
did what I did, I'd have been
no big deal," he said. "By be-
ing Jewish, and having won
at Wimbledon, and in
Australia and a few other
things, I was unusual."
For many of the players, it
was this sense of being
"unusual" that gave them a
greater sense of Jewish iden-
tity, and a greater drive as
athletes.
As Abrams said: "I knew I
was Jewish, and I knew I
stood out, and I also knew I
had to be twice as good as my
opponents. If the Jew wasn't
twice as good, he was nothing.
If he was equal to them, he
was still nothing. I felt I had
to produce more; I had to do
more. I had to try, and try, and
try, and never give up. Never
give up. And that's what I
did." ❑
Elli.Wohlgeternter is
managing editor of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
This article originally
appeared in Present Tense
magazine. (c) Jewish
Telegraphic Agency