When he chose not to play a game in the 1934 pennant race on Yom Kippur, the poet Edgar Guest wrote:
“Came Yom Kippur – holy fast day the world wide over to the Jew,
And Hank Greenberg to his teaching and the old tradition true
Spent the day among his people and he didn’t come to play.
Said Murphy to Mulroney, ‘We shall lose the game today!
We shall miss him on the infield and shall miss him at the bat
But he’s true to his religion – and I honor him for that!”
Be true. Be proud!
“Came Yom Kippur – holy fast day the world wide over to the Jew,
And Hank Greenberg to his teaching and the old tradition true
Spent the day among his people and he didn’t come to play.
Said Murphy to Mulroney, ‘We shall lose the game today!
We shall miss him on the infield and shall miss him at the bat
But he’s true to his religion – and I honor him for that!”
Be true. Be proud!
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