{"id":211435946028,"title":"The Baseball Talmud Howard Megda BKE-TBT","handle":"the-baseball-talmud-howard-megda-bke-tbt","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"about-text\"\u003e \u003ch1 class=\"title\"\u003eThe Baseball Talmud\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2 class=\"subtitle\"\u003eThe Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball's Chosen Players\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp class=\"author\"\u003eby \u003cspan class=\"blue-text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"contributor-name-link\"\u003eHoward Megdal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the icons of the game to the players who got their big break but never quite broke through, \u003cem\u003eThe Baseball Talmud\u003c\/em\u003e provides a wonderful historical narration of Major League Jewish Baseball in America. 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The Baseball Talmud

The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball's Chosen Players

by Howard Megdal

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.

The Baseball Talmud 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, Megdal draws upon the lore and the little-known details that increase our enjoyment of the game, including:

  • Which Jewish player spent a portion of his retirement as a spy
  • Who received $50,000 and a car to quit school and join the Major Leagues
  • How many players sat out of games scheduled on Yom Kippur
  • Which famous player chose baseball over becoming a rabbi

But this is more than just stories. Megdal, a stat geek himself, uses the wealth of modern sabermetrics to determine the greatest Jewish players at each position, the all-time Jewish All-Star Team, and how they would rate against the greatest teams in baseball history, from the 1906 Chicago Cubs to the 1998 New York Yankees.

The Baseball Talmud rewrites the history of Jewish baseball and is a book that every baseball fan should own.

    • ISBN: 9780061558436
    • Format: Hardcover
Pages:
    320
  • Howard Megdal
Howard Megdal

Biography

Howard Megdal covers baseball for the New York Observer. He is a regular contributor to New York Baseball Digest and Inside Pitch, and has written for ESPN.com and numerous other publications. Megdal cohosts the radio program New York Baseball Live with Mike Silva. Megdal's daily haiku recapping each Mets game can be read on Metsgeek.com. He lives in New York.