The Baseball Talmud

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Howard Megdal gives a historical narration of Major League Jewish Baseball in America, with all the stats, facts, stories, and glory. He also uses modern sabermetrics to determine the greatest Jewish players at each position, who would be on an all-time Jewish All-Star Team, and how that team would rate against the greatest teams in baseball history in his book The Baseball Talmud.

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