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Lipman Pike was not only the first Jewish American sports star and professional baseball player, he was the first pro baseball player altogether. Oh, and there was that time he outran a horse. Born in New York in 1845 to Dutch Jewish parents, Pike began playing baseball soon after his bar mitzvah, and at the age of 21 agreed to play […]

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In 1954, at 17 years old, 7’1″ Wilt Chamberlain was already a basketball phenom. But the summer before his senior year of high school he took a summer job as a bellhop at Kutsher’s Country Club, a Jewish summer resort in the Catskills. In this new short video produced by Grantland we see Chamberlain charming guests as they checked in and […]

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