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Mark Kurlansky - Hank Greenberg - 9780300192469 - V9780300192469
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Hank Greenberg

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Description for Hank Greenberg Paperback. The remarkable life story of the first Jewish superstar athlete, by New York Times best-selling author Mark Kurlansky Series: Jewish Lives. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 b&w illustration. BIC Classification: BGS; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 250.

The remarkable life story of the first Jewish superstar athlete, by New York Times best-selling author Mark Kurlansky

One of the reasons baseball fans so love the sport is that it involves certain physical acts of beauty. And one of the most beautiful sights in the history of baseball was Hank Greenberg's swing. His calmly poised body seemed to have some special set of springs with a trigger release that snapped his arms and swept the bat through the air with the clean speed and strength of a propeller. But what is even more extraordinary than his grace ... Read more

In Hank Greenberg Mark Kurlansky explores the truth behind the slugger's legend: his Bronx boyhood, his spectacular discipline as an aspiring ballplayer, the complexity of his decision not to play on Yom Kippur, and the cultural context of virulent anti-Semitism in which his career played out.

What Kurlansky discovers is a man of immense dignity and restraint with a passion for sport who became a great reader—a man, too, who was an inspiration to the young Jackie Robinson, who said, "Class tells. It sticks out all over Mr. Greenberg."

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Jewish Lives
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300192469
SKU
V9780300192469
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky has written, edited, or contributed to twenty books, which have been translated into twenty-five languages and won numerous prizes. His previous books Cod, Salt, 1968, and The Food of a Younger Land were all New York Times best-sellers.

Reviews for Hank Greenberg
"Mark Kurlansky, a historian and a fan, zeroes in on Greenberg like Hammerin' Hank teeing off on a fastball."—Allen Barra, San Francisco Chronicle
Allen Barra
San Francisco Chronicle
“Always winning. . . . Kurlansky adroitly weaves the reluctance with which Greenberg wore this symbolic tallit throughout his life.”—New York Times Book Review
Bill Scheft
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Goodreads reviews for Hank Greenberg


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