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• Green's 1,847 career hits
— Greenberg had 1,628 — leave
him within a three-year reach of
Buddy Myer's total of 2,131.A sec-
ond baseman for the Washington
Senators, Myer, who also was
Jewish, was a contemporary of
Greenberg.
• Greenberg's total of 1,276 career
RBIs would be more of a stretch for
Green, who heads toward October
with 1,012.
Green's power numbers have
been declining for the past few
years, even as his batting average
has remained relatively steady.
Nonetheless, five more years at an
average of 60 RBIs per year would
take him past Greenberg at age 39.
However many productive sea-
sons may lie ahead of Green, we
can be sure of two things:
• He'll be remembered as the
premier Jewish major leaguer of
his time; but Green won't follow
Greenberg, Koufax (Los Angeles
Dodgers) and Lou Boudreau
(Cleveland Indians) to become the
fourth Jewish major leaguer in the
Hall of Fame.
• Perhaps as long as baseball
records are kept, Green will be
remembered as the player who had
the most productive nine-inning-
game performance in the history of
baseball:
On May 23, 2002, Green electri-
fied the baseball world by slugging
four homers, a double and a single
in a game for the Los Angeles
Dodgers against Milwaukee.
But will he or won't he overtake
Greenberg and Myer to become
the all-time Jewish career leader in
homers, RBIs and hits? And will he
or won't he achieve his final stats
while wearing a Mets uniform?
And at this time in American
Jewish life, aren't those questions at
least as interesting as whether he
plays on Yom Kippur? E

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