TAMPA \u2014 You hear about Sandy Koufax first.<\/p>\n
Not just because he left the game at the apex of pitching or because he is among the handful of Jewish Hall of Famers, but because he chose not to start Game 1 of the World Series when it coincided with his religion\u2019s holiest day.<\/p>\n
Then you hear about Hank Greenberg, who less famously first sat on Yom Kippur during a pennant race \u2014 the two-time MVP, who nearly broke Babe Ruth\u2019s home run record 23 years before Roger Maris.<\/p>\n
They were bigger than baseball. Their pictures hung in Harrison Cohen\u2019s Hebrew School on Long Island. Their tales were repeated at his home in Syosset. Their clips were played on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 You hear about Sandy Koufax first. Not just because he left the game at the apex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,13565,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,428,4820,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-603524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-world-baseball-classic","18":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116165282730792630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}