Jewish Major Leaguer Ryan Braun is the latest MOT to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated.
The Milwaukee Brewers star joins teammate Prince Fielder on the front page of the August 29 magazine.
This marks the second time the Brewers "Hebrew Hammer" has been on an SI cover. He was also featured on the magazine's March 31, 2008 issue.
Braun's cover means Jewish sports collectors who want to build a library of Sports Illustrated issues with MOTs on the cover can now have more than two dozen items on their shelves.
JewishSportsCollectibles.com featured a previous list of SI cover boys and girls when Duke hoops hero and MOT Jon Scheyer was featured on the front page of the vaunted magazine's April 10, 2010 issue.
I accidentally omitted several cover stars from that original list (thanks to the helpful reader who commented and corrected my mistake). Below then, is a (hopefully!) complete list of Jews on SI covers. Please note, this list includes athletes like David Beckham and Pete Sampras, who have Jewish heritage but may not themselves be practicing Jews.
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Baseball
Ron Blomberg
July 2, 1973
Ryan Braun
August 29, 2011
March 31, 2008
Sandy Koufax
March 4, 1963
April 13, 1964
December 20, 1965
May 15, 1967
July 12, 1999
October 9, 2006
Al Rosen
April 18, 1955
Basketball
Art Heyman
October 28, 1963
Ernie Grunfeld
February 9, 1976
Jon Scheyer
April 12, 2010
Jamila Wideman
March 17, 1997
Football
Lyle Alzado
July 8, 1991
Jay Fiedler
October 1, 2001
Art Modell
December 4, 1995
Hockey
Matthieu Schneider
June 14, 1993
Soccer
July 16, 2007
Tennis
Boris Becker
September 18, 1989
July 14, 1997
September 17, 1990
Olympic Sports
Sarah Hughes
March 4, 2002
Mark Spitz
July 22, 1968
September 4, 1972
Suzy Weiner (with Mark Spitz)
May 14, 1973
Other
Charles Goren (bridge)
Oct. 14, 1957
May 23, 1960
Bob and Bus Mosbacher (sailing)
May 18, 1959
Toots Shor (restaurateur)
July 27, 1959
Howard Cosell (sportscaster)
August 8, 1983
Bar Refeali (swimsuit model)
February 11, 2009
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