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Posted By: Alan

This is an excellent question, one of the questions that I will ask Josh Evans of Lelands, referring to his long time clients, at the Net54 dinner question & answer session if I make it to the National.

As a collector of cards & autographs of Jewish ballplayers, there are sociological and historical perspectives that are important in history. The mass influx of immigrants at the turn of the century made conditions more difficult for the Jew in every field, especially baseball, where there were repeated incidents of anti-semitism. Many athletes changed their names. Some of these men are today known to have been Jewish. How many others there were will never be known. So, I suppose I collect to honor these early Jewish players in history.

Alan