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American Jewish Historical Society, in cooperation with Jewish Major
Leaguers, Inc., has created a commemorative baseball card set, Jewish
Major Leaguers: American Jews in America's Game. Each set contains
141 cards of every identifiable Jewish Major League baseball player
from 1871 to the 2003 All-Star break. Professionally printed for
AJHS by the Fleer Trading Card Co., this limited edition, gift boxed
set documents the history of Jewish players in professional baseball.
For 42 of these major leaguers, this will be their first and only
publicly issued card.
The Society
is printing a limited number of sets as a fund-raiser and the
cards will not be sold commercially. The cards are only available
as a token of the Society’s gratitude to new and existing
members and are not available otherwise or sold separately. Click
to see sample cards of Lipman Pike, Moe Berg, Hank Greenberg,
or Shawn Green.
Find out
how much you know about the stats of Jewish baseball players …
1.
What percentage of major league baseball players have been Jewish?
Less than 1%
About 3%
Over 5%
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2. How many
Jewish players played in only one game?
3
7
12
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for answer
3. What was
the average batting average of all Jewish players?
.198
.265
.284
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for answer
4. How many
times did a Jewish player hit a cycle (single, double, triple
and home run in the same game)?
0
1
2
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for answer
5. What Jewish player has had the single best nine-inning slugging
performance in the history of baseball?
Hank Greenberg
Jason Marquis
Shawn Green
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6. What percentage
of games played were won by Jewish pitchers?
.304
.404
.504
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7. How many
no-hitters have been thrown by Jewish pitchers?
3
6
9
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8. What is
the ERA (Earned Run Average) for all Jewish pitchers?
3.55
3.66
3.77
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9. How many
home runs have Jewish Major Leaguers hit?
Over 1,000
Over 1,500
Over 2,000
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10. How many
of the players appearing in the Jewish Major Leaguers card set
have never before been pictured on a collectible baseball card?
28
41
73
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These statistics
were painstakingly compiled by Martin Abramowitz, who is the creator
of the Jewish Major Leaguers card set. The numbers were first
published in an article “The Making of a Card Set: American
Jews in America’s Game” in the Fall/Winter 2003 edition
of Heritage, the newsletter of the American Jewish Historical
Society.
    
 
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