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Dodgers'
rightfielder
Shawn Green
will emulate the two
Jewish baseball hall of
famers next week when
he refuses to play on
Yom Kippur.
The Dodgers are
battling Arizona and San
Francisco for the National
League's west division title and a spot
in the league playoffs. The Dodgers
face the San Francisco Giants on
Wednesday — Yom Kippur — in the
potentially pivotal last game of the
season.
Green, 28, rose to stardom with the
Toronto Blue Jays. The southern
California native was signed as a free
agent by Los Angeles in 1999. He
said he wanted to play in a city with
a large Jewish population, and signed
a six-year contract averaging $14 mil-
lion per year.
As of last weekend, Green had hit
46 home runs this season and was
batting .300 with 116 runs batted in
(RBI), 18 stolen bases and 108 runs
scored. He leads the major leagues in
consecutive games played, with just
over 400.
According to Irwin Cohen of Oak
Park, a former Detroit Tigers employ-
ee and a baseball historian, Green has
played on the High Holidays in the
past. But he has been influenced by
Jews in the Los Angeles community.
"I don't expect him to be in shul,"
said Cohen, "but he won't be at the
ball park."
In his announcemnent last week,
Green said, "I feel it's an important
thing to do as a representative of the
Jewish community and as far as my
being a role model to Jewish kids, to
basically say that baseball or anything
isn't bigger than your religion or your
roots."
According to the Northern
California Jewish Bulletin, Green told

Dodgers' management
last year that he would
not play on Yom
Kippur. This year, he is
serving as spokesman
for the Jewish
Federation of Greater
Los Angeles reading lit-
eracy program.
Cohen says Green
was touched this year by
Jewish Campers' Day at
Dodger Stadium, when
throngs of boys attended
the game not wearing
Dodger caps but yarmulkes.
The Dodgers set up a special con-
cession stand that day under rabbini-
cal supervision and sold kosher food
products. An area was provided dur-
ing the seventh inning for prayer
services.
Detroit Tiger hall of famer Hank
Greenberg set the precedent for
Green in 1934, in his second big-
league season, by not playing on Yom
Kippur. The Tigers were in a tight
pennant race, and lost the game, but
won the pennant anyway. They lost
the World Series, however, to St.
Louis.
Greenberg, who moved from third
base to full-time first baseman in
1934, hit .339 that year and led the
American League in doubles (63),
home runs (26), and RBI (139).
In 1965, Sandy Koufax was at the
height of his stellar 11-season career
with the Dodgers when he declined
to pitch the opening game of the
World Series against the Minnesota
Twins. Teammate Don Drysdale,
another future hall of famer, pitched
and lost the game, and Koufax lost
game 2 the next day. But Koufax won
the seventh and deciding game to win
the Series.
During his career, Koufax won 4
and lost 3 in World Series play, but
had a sparkling 0.95 earned run aver-
age in 57 World Series innings.
He retired at age 31 after several
serious arm and hand ailments during
his career. In 1966, his last season, he
finished 27 9.

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