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The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball's Chosen Players - Hardcover | Diverse Reads

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Updated and expanded edition!

From the icons of the game to the players who got their big break but never quite broke through, The Baseball Talmud provides a wonderful historical narration of Major League Jewish Baseball in America. All the stats, the facts, the stories, and the (often unheralded) glory. This delightful compmendium reveals that there is far more to Jewish baseball than Hank Greenberg's powerful slugging and Sandy Koufax's masterful control.

From Ausmus to Zinn, Berg to Kinsler, Holtzman to Yeager, and many others, Howard Megdal draws upon the lore and the little-known details that increase our enjoyment of the game.

This new, expanded edition of The Baseball Talmud rewrites the history of Jewish baseball and is a book that every baseball fan should own.

ISBN-13: 9781637270011

Media Type: Hardcover(Expanded and Updated)

Publisher: Triumph Books

Publication Date: 05-03-2022

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

Howard Megdal is a journalist and editor who has worked hard over his career to equalize coverage between both men and women’s sports, while covering baseball, basketball, soccer, and other sports. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The IX Newsletter, a daily newsletter covering five different women's sports, and The Next, a 24/7 women's basketball outlet. He is a freelancer for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, and Forbes. His books include The Baseball Talmud, Wilpon's Folly, Taking The Field, and The Cardinals Way.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jayson Stark vii

Introduction x

Catcher 1

First Base 33

Second Base 67

Third Base 91

Shortstop 111

Left Field 127

Center Field 143

Right Field 183

Left-Handed Starters 191

Right-Handed Starters 205

Left-Handed Relievers 227

Right-Handed Relievers 261

The All-Time Jewish Team: Unbeatable 297

Acknowledgments 303

Sources 305