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Michael Robert Tauchman (born December 3, 1990) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Colorado Rockies , New York Yankees , San Francisco Giants , and Chicago Cubs , and in the KBO League for the Hanwha Eagles .
Jewish players have played in Major League Baseball since the league came into existence, with Lip Pike being the first. With the surge of Jewish immigrants from Europe to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, baseball, then the most popular sport in the country and referred to as the "National Pastime", became a way for children of Jewish immigrants to assimilate into American ...
Mike Tauchman: How another Chicago Cubs baseball star ended up at this West Peoria bar. The Cubs became the only MLB team — since pitches began being tracked in 1988 — to have three separate ...
The topic of Jewish participation in sports is discussed extensively in academic and popular literature. Scholars believe that sports have been a historical avenue for Jewish people to overcome obstacles toward their participation in secular society, especially before the mid-20th century in Europe and the United States.
From 2010-13, Tauchman started in all but one of his 193 games during a four-year career in Peoria. He hit an NCAA-best .425 during his 2013 campaign, earning consensus all-America honors and ...
Pinch-hitter Mike Tauchman had a two-run single in the seventh for the Cubs (79-75), who have eight games left and closed within six games for the last NL wild card. “We got a big swing from ...
Pages in category "Jewish American baseball players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 251 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Mike Tauchman’s first walk-off home run could not have been scripted much better. Roughly 25 miles from where he grew up in Palatine, in a crosstown rivalry game against the White Sox, Tauchman ...