Feldman pitches, Breslau grounds it to Braun who throws to Youkilis
I love baseball, and well, I'm Jewish, so I always note when a Jewish player comes my way. Like last night - Texas Ranger Scott Feldman pitching and flustering the Yankees. Feldman sounds more Jewish than Youkilis (a name I always believed derives from a shtetl joke payed on the family in formative years: Youkilis and Yukels are too similar), but how about Jason Marquis?
Here is a list of current major league baseball players culled from jewsinsports.org. Mike Lieberthal does not count since his mother is not Jewish.
Ausmus, Brad, Astros, catcher
Braun, Ryan, Brewers, third base
Breslow, Craig, Twins, pitcher
Feldman, Scott, Rangers, pitcher
Grabow, John Pirates, pitcher
Green Shawn, Mets, outfielder
Greenberg, Adam, Angles, outfielder
Marquis, Jason, Cubs, pitcher
Schoenweis, Scott, Mets, pitcher
Stern, Adam, Free Agent, outfielder
Youkilis, Kevin, First Base, Red Sox
Factoids.
Jose Bautista, Mets pitcher in the 80's, was from the Dominican Republic but his mom was a Sephardic Israeli Orthodox Jew. He was raised Orthodox and keeps the holidays.
Also, Ryan Braun shares the same last name as Sandy Koufax before the family changed its name.
Greenbergs Rule: three of them; considering that Shawn Green's family's initial name was Greenberg.
Judaism.com
July 1st, 2008 at 4:42 pm
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Youkilis
Although his family name is derived from the Greek culture, Youkilis is Jewish, of Romanian descent.[4]
On August 8, 2005, while playing for the Red Sox, Youkilis took the field in the 9th inning along with Adam Stern and Gabe Kapler, setting a “record” for the most Jewish players on the field at one time in American League history, and the most in Major League Baseball history since four Jewish players took the field for the New York Giants in a game in 1941. [5]
In an oddity, it was noticed that several online websites listing Youkilis’ statistics contained an inadvertent slur. The sites in question all used an url-naming convention which combines the first five letters of a player’s surname with the first two letters of his first name (for example, teammate Manny Ramirez’s url would include “ramirma”). Unintentionally, when applied to Kevin Youkilis, this process generated “youkike.” Baseball-reference.com redid Youkilis’ homepage by hand, changing the offending clause to “youklke.”[6]
July 4th, 2008 at 7:45 am
from 2days nypost
“The scary thing is that maybe this is what the Yankees are - a 45-41 collection of expensive parts incapable of an extended hot streak due to an inconsistent hitting and a rotation that stunningly includes Sidney Ponson.”
July 4th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
scarier: 45-42