It turns out that I undersold Greenberg; he was one of the greatest hitters of all time and gives Sandy Koufax a run at being the greatest Jewish baseball player of all time.
By that time, at age 35, he was well past most baseball players’ prime.
The fact that Greenberg was a hero to young Jewish baseball fans (like my father), a great American and incredible human being is not under dispute.
Greenberg remains one of only 10 baseball players to ever hit 58 home runs in a single season.
Greenberg ranks 62nd among every position player on this metric since major league baseball began way back in the 1870s, according to Baseball-Reference (and different outlets compute WAR7 slightly differently).
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