Interestingly, all three played for the Los Angeles Dodgers when they captured the honors.
Larry Sherry Topps card. Photo courtesy of eBay.com.
JewishSportsCollectibles.com offers reviews of the players' baseball cards and collectibles ... which range from common cards to $100,000+ game-used leather, from books to DVDs, from postcards and programs to books by the yard.
Steve Yeager Upper Deck card. Photo courtesy of Beckett.com
Click on the links that follow to read the JSC overviews of the cards and memorabilia for World Series MVP winners Larry Sherry (1959), Sandy Koufax (1963 and 1965) and Steve Yeager (1981).
Feel free to comment below, or in the individual postings, to let JewishSportsCollectibles.com readers know what your most treasured collectible for these World Series winners might be.
Both films are free and open to the public. Showings will be held at the Culture Center Theater at the West Virginia State Capitol. Holy Land Hardball shows at 4 p.m. Jews and Baseball starts at 5:30 p.m., according to the Daily Mail.
For additional information, call Federated Jewish Charities of Charleston at 304-345-2320, or email mzltov@aol.com.
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Holy Land Hardball poster. Photo courtesy of www.7thart.com.
Holy Land Hardballfollows several players and league officials as it looks at the ill-fated experiment that was the Israel Baseball League's 2007 season.
Collectors can rent the film and download digital copies on Amazon.com. Jewish baseball enthusiasts at one time could purchase the DVDs from film's web site, but it appears to no longer be working.
Other memorabilia associated with Holy Land Hardball include promotional postcards and posters from the various Jewish film festivals at which the documentary has been shown.
Producer Brett Rapkin has proven himself willing to respond to emails in the past, and I count myself lucky to have corresponded with him. I'm pleased to have two signed Hardball promotional postcards in my personal collection of Jewish baseball memorabilia.
Watch the trailer for Holy Land Hardball below.
Jews and Baseball poster. Photo courtesy of JewsandBaseball.com.
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story examines Jewish Major League baseball players and the explores the meaning baseball has played in the lives of American Jews and their attempts to assimilate to American culture during the early 20th Century.
The movie includes a rare interview with Sandy Koufax.
DVDs and digital rentals of the movie are available on Amazon.com.
Are you planning to attend the film festival this weekend? Have you seen Jews and Baseball or Holy Land Hardball? Share your thoughts on the films with other JewishSportsCollectibles.com readers by commenting below.
Dmitriy Salita (left) vs. Ronnie Warrior Jr. Photo by Alex Gorokhov, courtesy of www.dsalita.com.
Orthodox Jewish welterweight boxer Dmitriy "The Star of David" Salita will step into the ring as part of the opening night fights at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday, October 20.
Salita will fight either Brandon Hoskins, according to a report on KaplansKorner.com, in one of the under card bouts scheduled for the grand opening event.
Salita's story is intriguing.
Born in 1980 in Odessa, Ukraine in the former Soviet Union, Salita moved to Brooklyn at age nine, according to his Wikipedia bio, to escape anti-Semitic violence.
Bullied in school, Salita took up karate and boxing to learn to defend himself. "That is how it all started. I got called into the principal's office. I got suspended a few times, but I got my respect. I started kicking some ass at school."
Salita began boxing competitively at age 13, won a championship in the April 2001 New York Golden Gloves competition and turned pro at age 19 later that year. He has since won 36 fights, losing only one match and fighting to a draw in one, according to BoxRec.com.
Orthodox Stance DVD. Photo courtesy of OrthodoxStance.com.
Salita signed boxing gloves. Photo courtesy DSalitas.com.
While growing up in Brooklyn, Salitas was exposed to Orthodox Judaism and became fully observant. He keeps kosher and observes Sabbath, refusing to fight before sundown on Saturdays or on Jewish holidays.
Jewish boxing fans have access to a small, but varied, number of Salita collectibles.
The boxer, who fights wearing trunks that bear a Star of David, maintains a web site, on which he sells merchandise, including autographed, training ring worn boxing gloves and signed fight worn corner jackets. Cost for either item is $250 plus $20 shipping.
There are also a number of high quality images available on Salita's web site. Most (like the one featured above) feature the boxer in the ring, and would make nice additions to a boxing collection, especially if a collector could get a print signed by the Jewish fighter.
What other Salitas collectibles exist? What memorabilia associated with the fighter do you have in your Jewish boxing collection? Let JewishSportsCollectibles.com readers know by commenting below.
Immediately following Greenberg's three-pitch strike out, attendees began selling the posters on eBay.
Prices are all over the board, with publicity about Greenberg's one at bat artificially inflating prices.
The posters were selling for between $0.99 and $25 at the time of this posting.
Several posters signed by Greenberg, and by Greenber and One At Bat's Matt Liston are also up for bid. Proceeds from the sale of these posters benefit the Sports Legacy Institute, a group that studies concussions and traumatic brain injuries in athletes. Greenberg donated his one day's pay from the Marlins to the organization. Prices for the autographed posters range from $15-45, as of this posting.
Some attendees are also selling ticket stubs from the game, either as single items, or bundled with the posters.
Prices on the tickets range from $0.99 to $28.
I expect prices on both the tickets and posters will come down as the PR buzz fades.
Patient collectors may be able to save a buck or two in this way.
Did you attend the game? Do you have a One At Bat poster or ticket stub from Adam's return to the Major Leagues in your Jewish baseball collection? Will you buy one?
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