| Jewish Sports Quotes | When I was playing, I used to resent being singled out as a
Jewish ballplayer,” he said. “I wanted to be known as a great
ballplayer, period....Lately, though, I find myself wanting to be
remembered not only as a great ballplayer, but even more as a great
Jewish ballplayer. I realize now, more than I used to, how important a
part I played in the lives of a generation of Jewish kids who grew up
in the 30̓s.
-- Hank Greenberg, Detroit Tigers Slugger and Hall of Famer
Source: Jewish Press
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| Tips: Suzyn Waldman: Yankee Announcer and Pioneer | Posted on Thursday, March 31 @ 11:24:45 UTC 
Suzyn Waldman's road to becoming Yankee announcer is filled with many obstacles from being screamed at, spat at cursed by baseball players to having her work sabotaged. Yet as a Jew and a Woman she persevered.
Waldman was a raised in a Reform Jewish environment. She attended Sunday school and went to temple. She has a clause in her contract
She broke through sexist barriers that kept women from covering men’s sports. She was the first woman reporter on WFAN, the all-sports talk radio network based in New York, and the first woman to do play-by-play on a Yankees television broadcast when she called games for WPIX and the MSG network in the mid-1990s. Now, she will be the first woman to become a full-time color commentator in Major League Baseball history.
In between she starred on Broadway, including a role as Dulcinea in “Man of La Mancha,” and overcame breast.
Read her remarkable story at A Voice For The Ages.
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