Koufax, Greenberg and Yom Kippur
Meant to get this out BEFORE Yom Kippur was over but, you know ...
But there was perhaps a more interesting Yom Kippur World Series decision made thirty years earlier.
Hank Greenberg grew up in Orthodox Jewish family, meaning his childhood was very different from Sandy Koufax’s more secular upbringing. Koufax did not have a Bar Mitzvah, h…