Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Hank Greenberg


On this date in 1940, Hank Greenberg of the Tigers is named the AL MVP after batting .340 with 41 home runs and 150 rbis.

"The fondest memory I have of Hank Greenberg was the time the Tigers paid for the United Hebrew schools to see a game. It must have been about 1938. In about the seventh inning, Hank came lumbering out to left field as usual and my friend Joe, as a joke, yelled to him in Yiddish that he was hungry. Hank turned around and called over to the peanut vendor and told him to give us a box of peanuts and charge it to him." - Baseball fan, Ben Rose (Detroit News)

1 comment:

Hackenbush said...

I think Ryan Braun's success has brought the original "Hebrew Hammer" more to mind.