How Hank Greenberg Desegregated Baseball

BY JARED SICHEL – Jewniverse In 1954, one year before the debut of Sandy Koufax, Hank Greenberg was the General Manager of the Cleveland Indians. Under Bronx-born Greenberg, the Indians had more black ballplayers than any other team. Greenberg didn’t care...

Highlights of the 1945 Baseball Season

  Here is a delightful Washingtonian article about how the Senators were upstaged by Hank Greenberg’s hitting in 1945. “Legendary slugger Hank Greenberg, just out of the Army Air Corps, had rejoined the Detroit Tigers. And on this last day of the...