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Lot # 1109: Hank Greenberg & Home Run Anti-Semitism (1938)

Category: Baseball

Starting Bid: $100.00

Bids: 3 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "June 2010 Catalog",
which ran from 6/8/2010 12:00 AM to
7/9/2010 9:00 PM



With five games left in the 1938 season, Hank Greenberg had hit 58 home runs. In those last five games, several pitchers chose to walk Greenberg rather than give him a chance to break Babe Ruth's single- season home run record of 60. Many observers believed that major league baseball did not want a Jew breaking Ruth's record. Here is Greenberg on September 6, 1938. 7 x 9". EX.

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