  Beysbol Brand   This panoply of Jewish-American greats features at center a portrait of Barney Dreyfuss (1865‒1932), Major League executive and owner of the National League’s Pittsburgh Pirates franchise from 1900 until his death. Dreyfuss’s many contributions to the game include the building of Forbes Field, one the game’s earliest concrete and steel ballparks, and the creation of the modern World Series in 1903. He also played a central role in the banning of the spitball and other trick pitches in 1920. At top left is pitcher Ken Holtzman (b.1945), who didn’t require a bag of dirty tricks to win; he is the only twirler since the 1880s to throw two no-hitters for the Chicago Cubs, and would later pace the Oakland A’s to three consecutive World Series titles in the early ’70s. Beside him is slugging third sacker Al “Flip” Rosen (1924‒2015), unanimous American League MVP in 1953, who spent the entirety of his playing career with the Cleveland Indians, and would later become a respected executive with the Yankees, Astros and Giants. Next is the incomparable Sandy Koufax (b.1935), the most dominant pitcher of his day—a three-time Cy Young Award winner, perennial strikeout king and author of four no-hit games, one of them a perfecto in 1965. Koufax was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972, joining there the first Jewish superstar of team sport, Hank Greenberg (1911‒1986), who entered the Hall in 1956. Supplanting Jimmie Foxx as the most lethal right-handed hitter in the AL, the “Hebrew Hammer” smashed 58 home runs for the Detroit Tigers in 1935 and drove in an incredible 183 runs in 1937, the AL record for a right-handed batter. While a young player, he endured every anti-Semitic slur imaginable and would later become an outspoken advocate for ethnic and racial equality. Greenberg was a hero to Jewish kids, who drove their elder’s nuts with their passion for this crazy American game: “You mean these men get paid to play?” Thanks to Greenberg they, too, would soon learn to love  beysbol . 