Biography

A Hero When Jews Desperately Needed One: An Interview with Hank Greenberg Biographer John Rosengren

By Elliot Resnick

To his parents’ friends, he was “Mrs. Greenberg’s disgrace,” but to sports fans he is one of the greatest – if not the greatest – Jewish baseball players of all time. Long before Sandy Koufax, Hank Greenberg excited Jewish sports fans with his prowess on the baseball diamond.