Today is the first full day of what was my favorite Jewish celebratory holiday as a kid: Passover, which commemorates the Jews escaping bondage in ancient Egypt.
This time for celebration helped to remind me of a conversation I had a month ago with my friend Noam in which I said, “Hank Greenberg would have been a top-100 baseball player had it not been for World War II.” Noam expressed some skepticism, so I decided to dig into the numbers. It turns out that I undersold Greenberg; he was one of the greatest hitters of all time and gives Sandy Koufax a run at being the greatest Jewish baseball player of all time.
Greenberg likely would have come close to, if not hit, 500 home runs had his career not been interrupted by the war. He almost certainly would have hit the 400-mark. Just three players hit 500 home runs prior to 1960 – and only 28 have through 2024. Just six players hit 400 home runs before 1960, while Greenberg’s 331 were still good enough for 12th prior to 1960.
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