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  • The KKK vs. Hebrew All-Stars Baseball Game: 1926

    10/09/2013 8:08:46 AM PDT · by rface · 13 replies
    Atlantic ^ | 2009 | Jeffrey Goldberg
    It also turns out that the September, 1926 game between the Hebrews and the Klan wasn't the only time Abe Povich played against an anti-Semitic group. Larry Povich, one of Abe's sons, reports that he was often told about a game against a group of racists that the Hebrews actually won. ..... "They felt that they were in trouble because he said [the racists] had picked up their bats at, what they thought was, an inappropriate time. And they were coming after them," Larry said. Turns out the white supremacists were sore losers. "It's very vivid in my mind in...