He wouldn't play on Yom Kippur

I'm sure that many of you looked at the title of this post and thought I was going to talk about Sandy Koufax, who was my generation's Jew who refused to play baseball on Yom Kippur. But no, this post is about Hank Greenberg.

The Irish didn’t like it when they heard of Greenberg’s fame

For they thought a good first baseman should possess an Irish name;

And the Murphy s and Mulrooneys said