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Category: Jewish Players

My Process Part 3: Jake becomes Jack who becomes Jake again

Posted on September 16, 2020October 25, 2020 by Gary Joseph Cieradkowski

  Armed with the knowledge that I was dealing with a guy playing under two different names, one of which being his given Jewish name, I went back to my library. Fortunately, there has been much written about the history of Jews and baseball. I went for my three go-to volumes: The Big Book of […]

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Izzy Zarakov: Izzy at the Bat

Posted on December 18, 2019October 27, 2020 by Gary Joseph Cieradkowski

This was one of those moments where either a hero or goat is created. Hollywood is fueled on this type of drama, where one becomes either Roy Hobbs or The Mighty Casey. But neither Hobbs nor Casey were entrusted with Harvard’s athletic reputation that afternoon in 1927; Izzy Zarakov was. […]

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Jesse Baker: The Kid Who Got Cobbed

Posted on January 27, 2019January 27, 2019 by Gary Joseph Cieradkowski

Of all the one-and-done players in the Baseball Encyclopedia, no one, not even Moonlight Graham, has as good a story as Jesse Baker. Underworld prizefight connections, Hollywood stunt doubles and Ty Cobb – Baker’s tale has it all! […]

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