White metal pin featuring Detroit Tiger Hank Greenberg. The pin is part of the 1938 Our National Game series. It was originally was affixed to a cardboard backing.
Hank Greenberg (b. 1911-1986) played Major League baseball from 1930-1947, missing the 1942-1944 seasons due to military service. The catcher played the Detroit Tigers for the entirety of his career, except for his final season, spent with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
A five time All-Star, Greenberg won two American League MVP awards (1935,1940) and helped lead the Tigers to two World Series Championships (1935, 1945.) The Hebrew Hammer, Greenberg, baseball's first Jewish American superstar, had a .313 lifetime batting average, with 331 home runs and 1,276 runs batted in.
In 1956 he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Part of a costume worn by actors Harry Goz and Zero Mostel in the role of Teyve in Fiddler on the Roof.
Based on the writings of Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem, the musical play Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway in 1964. Set in 1905, the story's protagonist, Tevye is a philosophical dairy farmer who struggles to uphold his Jewish traditions while facing intergenerational family tensions and Russian pogroms.
A massive hit, Fiddler won 9 Tony awards, and was, at the time, the longest running play in Broadway history.
The play's homage to Jewish resilience in the face of the oppression, including the celebratory song To Life, was deeply felt following the horrors of the Holocaust. Giving a sense of the fullness of the Jewish experience, Fiddler represented a religious and cultural minority that had been rarely explored in America's mainstream popular entertainments.
Adapted for the screen in 1971, the play has had numerous revivals and has become a staple of American musical theatre.
Part of a costume worn by actors Harry Goz and Zero Mostel in the role of Teyve in Fiddler on the Roof.
Based on the writings of Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem, the musical play Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway in 1964. Set in 1905, the story's protagonist, Tevye is a philosophical dairy farmer who struggles to uphold his Jewish traditions while facing intergenerational family tensions and Russian pogroms.
A massive hit, Fiddler won 9 Tony awards, and was, at the time, the longest running play in Broadway history.
The play's homage to Jewish resilience in the face of the oppression, including the celebratory song To Life, was deeply felt following the horrors of the Holocaust. Giving a sense of the fullness of the Jewish experience, Fiddler represented a religious and cultural minority that had been rarely explored in America's mainstream popular entertainments.
Adapted for the screen in 1971, the play has had numerous revivals and has become a staple of American musical theatre
Part of a costume worn by actors Harry Goz and Zero Mostel in the role of Teyve in Fiddler on the Roof.
Based on the writings of Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem, the musical play Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway in 1964. Set in 1905, the story's protagonist, Tevye is a philosophical dairy farmer who struggles to uphold his Jewish traditions while facing intergenerational family tensions and Russian pogroms.
A massive hit, Fiddler won 9 Tony awards, and was, at the time, the longest running play in Broadway history.
The play's homage to Jewish resilience in the face of the oppression, including the celebratory song To Life, was deeply felt following the horrors of the Holocaust. Giving a sense of the fullness of the Jewish experience, Fiddler represented a religious and cultural minority that had been rarely explored in America's mainstream popular entertainments.
Adapted for the screen in 1971, the play has had numerous revivals and has become a staple of American musical theatre.
