# Great Jewish Athletes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-jewish-athletes/41114>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 14, 2000, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-jewish-athletes/41114 "2000-11-14T04:07:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-jewish-athletes/41114/21 "2000-11-15T03:20:02Z")

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Hardly a “great”, but [Larry Zeidel](http://www.foxsports.com/nhl/history/players/23182.sml).

I have heard that Eddie Shack, a fellow who didn’t cotton to ‘Jew boys’ playing hockey, used to beat him up.

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**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-jewish-athletes/41114/22 "2000-11-15T12:56:34Z")

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> \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \*  
> \*\*Moe Berg may have been a poor hitter, but he was a very successful spy for the U.S. A lot of his observations on his barnstorming visits to Japan in the 1930s helped the army plan for the invasion of Japan in 1945. \*\*

Spy, yes. How successful he was has been called into question. IIRC, Nicholas Dawidoff, in his book \*The Catcher was a Spy, points out that there’s not much evidence that Berg’s prewar photos of Tokyo were all that useful (or even used) in planning early bombing raids. Certainly Berg did work for the OSS during the war and was given some fairly important assignments, but he wore out his welcome within a few years after the war’s end, and the CIA declined to renew his contract after 1954.

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**Author:** ![taddycat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@taddycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taddycat)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-jewish-athletes/41114/23 "2000-11-15T16:02:19Z")

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It’s by Joel Samberg and is available at [amazon.com](http://amazon.com) (probably elsewhere too, but I haven’t checked)

It lists Jews in all types of sports, as well as other lists of and about Jews. Really interesting reading.

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