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Hank Greenberg
Born on this day one hundred years ago. A guy who made it a little easier for the rest of us Yids. Show 'em.
http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_...0Greenberg.jpg |
A real hero of mine as a kid -- and still today
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/calvindog/4408961166/" title="1936 R311 (Glossy) by calvindog65, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4408961166_2c69fb5b20_o.jpg" width="750" height="1059" alt="1936 R311 (Glossy)" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/calvindog/2986196275/" title="1936 R312 by calvindog65, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3140/2986196275_2723fcc553_o.jpg" width="750" height="1152" alt="1936 R312" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/calvindog/3401348225/" title="1939 Goudey Premium B&W R303-B by calvindog65, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3451/3401348225_ceed6cae1e_o.jpg" width="750" height="1151" alt="1939 Goudey Premium B&W R303-B" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/calvindog/4841406306/" title="1935 Goudey Premiums R309-2 by calvindog65, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/4841406306_b06d190801_o.jpg" width="900" height="1233" alt="1935 Goudey Premiums R309-2" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/calvindog/4017117852/" title="1935 Diamond Stars (Greenburg) by calvindog65, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2782/4017117852_184dbff41e_o.jpg" width="450" height="732" alt="1935 Diamond Stars (Greenburg)" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/calvindog/2909607307/" title="Hank Greenberg by calvindog65, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3209/2909607307_94bc64b747_o.jpg" width="450" height="764" alt="Hank Greenberg" /></a> |
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I have shown this letter here before but never tire of showing it off.
Since I am a Yid too, and Hank grew up in the Bronx and went to my High School (James Monroe same as Ed Kranepool) I feel that it is worth showing off at every chance :). |
1935 Supplement
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Happy B-Day Hank
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Speaking of Greenberg
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Hank Greenberg
I think this Blue Tint is Hank's last card issued while he was still playing.
<img src="http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt113/zanted86/bluetinthankgreenberg.jpg" alt="[linked image]"> HAPPY NEW YEAR to ALL TED Z |
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Happy New Year to everyone... it's not vintage, but here is an illustration I did for a little journal I am publishing this year on Jewish ballplayers. Instead of yet another Tigers card of Hank I thought I'd do one from the very start of his pro career when playing with the Brooklyn Bay Parkways semi-pro team.
http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...greenberg4.jpg My Baseball Card Project: www.infinitecardset.blogspot.com |
http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...rg37Goudey.jpg
http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/35Goudey.jpg http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...scan0003-1.jpg http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/scan0001.jpghttp://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/scan0002.jpg http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/scan0003.jpg http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/scan0005.jpg http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/scan0004.jpg |
Brian, nice Greenberg collection!
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No longer in my collection, but what the hey:
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Late'40's--early '50's gumball machine charm---Hank in yellow frame:
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1932 Beaumont team photo w/Greenberg (standing, third from right in back row)...........
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Hank Greenberg
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Happy Birthday Hank!
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Fantastic stuff everybody! Richard's letter is particularly spectacular and it was really neat to see Phil's minor league photo (which I have taken the liberty of rotating). Imagine the shit he had to put up with in Texas.
As a Jew named McDonald (we were McDonaldszewski pre-Ellis Island) growing up amidst the goyim in the shetls of Colorado I have been privy to a raft of jewboy crap myself. It was the likes of Hank Greenberg and Barney Ross that put the lie to the stereotypes. They were heroes to whom us regular schlemiels are indebted. They indeed made it easier for us. I've told this story a couple of times on the Board so forgive me if it is getting boring but it's one of my most special baseball, nay more, one of my most special life memories. I close my eyes and I can still see myself, as if it were one of Jimmy C.'s Type I photographs, four-foot-nothing, looking up at the man himself and asking for his autograph. An encore presentation of an old post: http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_...erg%20post.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_..._Hank_1932.jpg |
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for it as I scrolled through the thread. :) Great cards, everyone! |
On May 7, 1941, the day after hitting two home runs in his farewell appearance, Greenberg was inducted in the Army and reported to Fort Custer at Battle Creek, Michigan, where many troops of the Fifth Division turned out at the train station to welcome the slugging star. “If there’s any last message to be given to the public,” he told The Sporting News. “Let it be that I’m going to be a good soldier.”
Greenberg ships out http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...hankfront1.jpg |
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I downloaded The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg on Netflix today. Highly recommended!
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Great Rookie, Matt
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