Los Angeles Angels manager Brad Ausmus. Third in major league history in put-outs as a catcher, former All Star, Gold Glove winner.
Sam Snead, the pro golfer whose record for PGA wins is about to be broken by Tiger Woods.
Most people didn’t realize Sam was Jewish, since he was a hillbilly from Appalachia and a professed Christian. But he gave himself away when he did a Pepto-Bismol commercial in the late 50’s:
“I play golf for a living, so I can’t afford to have an upset stomach on the Day of Atonement.”
ETA: if you are mystified, read it out loud in a West Virginian drawl.
Having dated quite a number of Jewish girls and known their run of the mill Jewish families, this is not the case. Pretty much every one held this belief. The girls had a lot more latitude when it came to picking mates, the boys would feel the mother’s wrath if they brought a shiksa home more than a handful of times. Mind you these were your every day suburban midwestern Jews, the kind that ate bacon, partied and drove on Friday nights and only busted out their yarmulke on the way to shul. None I would call “orthodox” or “conservative”.
The elevan Israeli athletes killed by Black September at the Munich Massacre in 1972.
Make that eleven.
Lance Stroll is Canadian. He was born in Montreal and although only 20 has been able to literally drink beer in his home province for almost 2 years.
Just remembered: The first-ever DH in major league baseball was the Yankees’ Ron Blomberg, “The Designated Hebrew”.