David Halberstam recently wrote a piece for the USAToday the detailed the ties between American baseball and Yom Kippur. He writes of the stark differences in the way Jewish people were treated in the U.S. in the two different years. He talks about effects of Koufax and Greenberg’s decisions to skip games on the holiday, and about what the decisions symbolize. He also makes mention of our film, The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg. Read the full article here:

While Koufax is rightly lauded, Yom Kippur example set by Hank Greenberg