Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Hank Greenberg


On this date in 1983, Hank Greenberg has his uniform number 5 retired by the Detroit Tigers.

"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)

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