Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes
- ISBN-10
- 0451416023
- ISBN-13
- 9780451416025
- Series
- Hank Greenberg
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-03-04
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- John Rosengren
Description
Shares the life story of the Detroit Tigers star who was one of the sport's few Jewish players and the contemporary of other baseball greats Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, and Lou Gehrig.
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- 2011-01-01
- 164 pages
- Paperback
- Yale University Press
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