Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 4, 2021
There's a difference between "best catcher of a generation" and "best-hitting catcher of a generation." Today, I will explain why that is. An example: Yadier Molina and Buster Posey.
A tweet from Barstool Sports sparked this debate.
Buster Posey,...
(JTA) — Jewish ace pitcher Max Fried delivered his Atlanta Braves to their first World Championship since 1995 with six shutout innings in Tuesday’s Game 6 of a World Series heralded as the most Jewish in baseball history. Fried, also became the first...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 1, 2021
Improvement for a Major League Baseball team can come in a variety of ways, such as a new manager. But many (including myself) could argue that Oliver Marmol isn't an improvement over Mike Shildt. Even John Mozeliak and Bill DeWitt Jr. couldn't convince...
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Hello and welcome to the second edition of the Jewish Sport Report! We know Jewish sports fans want to talk about all the Jews in the World Series, and don’t...
(JTA) — Tyler Herron, a former major league baseball prospect who pitched for Team Israel during their Cindarella run in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, died this week at 35.
No cause or exact date of Herron’s death have been reported. Several...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 28, 2021
Do you worry about the past or keep your eyes focused on the future?
That's the question for the St. Louis Cardinals when their shortstop search hits the desk of Carlos Correa this winter. While the Houston Astros shortstop is blasting his way through...
The St. Louis Blues are off to their best start in franchise history, and one of the reasons is kind of a secret. Word has it, that several Blues players have been sneaking out of the locker room in between periods, stealthfully getting to Portal 12 where...
When 6-year-old Emily Kantrovitz picked up a tennis racket for the first time, it did not take long before her parents and coaches began to see something special in that swing. As a child, she started playing with lower compression tennis balls...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 26, 2021
All I could remember was being in instant shock at the news. Coming off Brentwood Field during a softball game on Oct. 26, 2014, someone uttered a terrible combination of words: "Oscar Taveras died."
The first thing that settles into the cerebellum...
(JTA) — The World Series is upon us, and there are likely more Jewish players in this year’s edition than there have been in decades.
The American League champion Houston Astros, who ousted Chaim Bloom’s Boston Red Sox last week, feature star...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 25, 2021
Eleven days after the St. Louis Cardinals fired Mike Shildt, they have officially found his replacement in Oliver Marmol. Already the youngest manager in the Major Leagues, Marmol is the third in-house managerial hire for the team in the past decade.
Ten...
(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — For JoAnn Mason Parker, playing pool comes just as naturally as handling a knife and fork.
“You’re not going to drop it, because you know what you’re doing,” the former child prodigy...
