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As the pennant race gets underway, it’s time for the annual, “Look! Jews play baseball!” articles, like one in today’s Boston Globe and another in last week’s Connecticut Jewish Ledger. These articles invariably reference Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg before going on to talk about current icons like the Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis. ...

Before there was Lucille Ball, there was Gertrude Berg. On the same network, in fact: Berg’s show, The Goldbergs, aired in primetime on CBS-TV when Ball’s antics were still confined to the network’s radio station. But, while Lucy is constantly in reruns, Berg—who, according to Aviva Kempner’s new documentary Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, virtually invented ...

“From kindergarten to tenth grade all I really did was play sports, think about sports, dream about sports,” David Shields writes in the prologue to Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine. Then his passion shifted to writing—journalism, novels, and cultural criticism often concerning “an exceedingly verbal person contemplating an exceedingly physical person.” For Black ...