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Hank Greenberg's number 5 was retired by the Detroit Tigers in 1983. Greenberg was elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1956 on his eighth ballot, garnering 85% of the votes. He was the first Jewish player elected to the Hall of Fame.
[1] [2] His father, Jacob Greenberg, died when Hank was six and his mother, Ada Rheingold, married a dairy farmer. [2] [3] Greenberg served in the United States Army in Europe during World War II, participating in Operation Overlord at Normandy, the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, and in the Korean War, rising to the rank of captain. [2]
After the attack, Greenberg immediately reenlisted in the United States Army Air Forces. In 1947, Greenberg, as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates and playing his final season, was one of the few ballplayers to give a warm welcome to Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson, the majors' first black player in many years. Robinson later said, "Class tells.
Greenberg twice compiled at least 50 doubles in a season, which were the two times he led the league in the stat. Hank Greenberg crosses the plate with the third run as Aaron Robinson makes a stab ...
Greenberg died Jan. 26, 2011, after Goldberg called 911 and said he found her dead in the kitchen of their Philadelphia apartment during a snowstorm. There was a half-prepared fruit salad on the ...
Starr died in 1968. I became the head of the company in '67, and the people around us then, most of us at the very senior level were veterans, had been officers of the military, so there was a ...
Died: Richard Hauptmann, 36, ... Detroit Tigers star Hank Greenberg suffered a season-ending wrist fracture in a collision at first base with Jake Powell. Without ...
Hank Greenberg was the CEO of AIG (AIG) for 1968 to 2005, building the firm into the largest insurance company in the world. After being pushed out as an accounting scandal rocked the company, he ...