Hank Greenberg

'He was one of the truly great hitters, and when I first saw him at bat, he made my eyes pop out,' Joe DiMaggio said. Hank Greenberg is widely regarded as one of the best hitters ever. Born Hyman Greenberg on Jan. 1, 1911, in New York City, his hometown Yankees offered him a contract, but he would spurn them, instead choosing to join the Detroit Tigers.

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Greenberg was the first Jewish baseball superstar, and, as a symbol of pride, one of the most important Jews in America during the 20th Century. While playing for Detroit in 1934, he drew national attention by refusing to play on Yom Kippur despite the Tigers being involved in a pennant race.

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Any list of the greatest sluggers ever to wear a Detroit Tigers uniform has to include Hank Greenberg. Despite losing four years of his physical prime to World War II, he still put together a 13-year career (all but one with the Tigers) that included 331 home runs with 1,276 RBIs. A .313 hitter, he also drew a high number of walks, contributing to his .412 lifetime on-base percentage. Add to that a slugging average of .605, and his career OPS (on-base plus slugging) is an exceptional 1.017, a figure topped by only four other players at the time of his retirement (Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Foxx). Greenberg made a serious run at Babe Ruth’s single-season home-run mark in 1938. His Tigers teams went to four World Series, winning two of them. He did all this while enduring anti-Semitic slurs that were part and parcel of baseball at the time.

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The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg is a humorous and nostalgic documentary about an extraordinary baseball player who transcended religious prejudice to become an American icon. Detroit Tiger Hammerin’ Hank’s accomplishments during the Golden Age of Baseball rivaled those of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

Career: 331 HR, .313 BA (74th), 1274 RBI, 1B/LF, HOF in 1956, 2xMVP, 5xAllStar, Tigers/Pirates 1930-1947, b:R/t:R, 4x HR Leader, born in Unite. 1911, died 1986

Henry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg (born Hyman Greenberg; January 1, 1911 – September 4, 1986), nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank", "Hankus Pankus" or "The Hebrew Hammer", was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for the Detroit Tigers as a first baseman in the 1930s and 1940s. A member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, he was one of the premier power hitters of his generation and is widely considered as one of the greatest sluggers in baseball history.[1] He had 47 months of military service including service in World War II, all of which took place during his major league career.