It's Malcolm Gladwell's rule of 10,000. You've got to do something a lot to be great at it. Those Jews who do that in athletics are successful. Since it's baseball season, I think of Max Fried of the Braves and Alex Bregman of the Astros, but there are dozens more. Israeli Tai Baribo has killed it for soccer's Philadelphia Union, two goals last night alone. I was an ok athlete, but I preferred playing in the street with my friends to committing to HS sports. My friend Bob Sternberg, on the other hand, was all- New England prep.
I am not very into sports, but find myself very excited to see a Jewish sports star...Tamir Goodman in basket ball and Dmitri Salida in wrestling, especially if they are 'honorable mention.' And my favorite classic Jewish movie which everyone likes is The Chosen, with baseball playing a major role.
I have never been very good at sports (although I DID win trophy for a "Lawn Darts" tournament back in the 1970s at the Nevele Hotel in the Catskills; in elementary school during the 1960s ~ although I "stunk" at every other sport ~ I excelled beyond my peers in executing several "moves" on the trampoline, and thus was chosen to demonstrate them to parents during this school's annual "Olympics"; and during my public school Art teaching years during the 1990s, I coached an elementary school's "after school" kickball team to "victory"). I do not follow any sports, either. However, my favorite athlete was my now-departed dad, who excelled in several diverse sports, winning "letters" in most when he was in high school during the early-to-mid 1940s (in fact, he was chosen to play on the US National Soccer Team when the "Free French" sent their team to the NY area to raise funds for their war-effort during WWII), and was still playing (and WINNING at) baseball, tennis, ping pong, and golf into his early eighties....Dad always impressed upon my sister and me the importance of "holding our heads high" as Jews, and to be proud of the accomplishments of our people, be they in Sports, the Sciences, the Arts, Academia, and/or in Life....Along those lines...here is a link to a page in Wikipedia that has an extensive list of "Jews in Sports", both past & present:
(Under "Boxing", I am proud to see the name of a distant relative, Max "Slapsie-Maxie" Rosenbloom, a US & World light-heavyweight champion almost 100 years ago, in 1930. During his lifetime, he received many accolades honoring his boxing career, and also appeared in several films ~ and also on TV ~ from the 1930s thru the late 1960s. I met him once, when I was a young-ish child, in my paternal grandparents' backyard, under their magnificent cherry tree.) ~ Cheryl in NJ
It's Malcolm Gladwell's rule of 10,000. You've got to do something a lot to be great at it. Those Jews who do that in athletics are successful. Since it's baseball season, I think of Max Fried of the Braves and Alex Bregman of the Astros, but there are dozens more. Israeli Tai Baribo has killed it for soccer's Philadelphia Union, two goals last night alone. I was an ok athlete, but I preferred playing in the street with my friends to committing to HS sports. My friend Bob Sternberg, on the other hand, was all- New England prep.
I am not very into sports, but find myself very excited to see a Jewish sports star...Tamir Goodman in basket ball and Dmitri Salida in wrestling, especially if they are 'honorable mention.' And my favorite classic Jewish movie which everyone likes is The Chosen, with baseball playing a major role.
Thx for telling me this is live. I didn’t know and my family will be watching.
I have never been very good at sports (although I DID win trophy for a "Lawn Darts" tournament back in the 1970s at the Nevele Hotel in the Catskills; in elementary school during the 1960s ~ although I "stunk" at every other sport ~ I excelled beyond my peers in executing several "moves" on the trampoline, and thus was chosen to demonstrate them to parents during this school's annual "Olympics"; and during my public school Art teaching years during the 1990s, I coached an elementary school's "after school" kickball team to "victory"). I do not follow any sports, either. However, my favorite athlete was my now-departed dad, who excelled in several diverse sports, winning "letters" in most when he was in high school during the early-to-mid 1940s (in fact, he was chosen to play on the US National Soccer Team when the "Free French" sent their team to the NY area to raise funds for their war-effort during WWII), and was still playing (and WINNING at) baseball, tennis, ping pong, and golf into his early eighties....Dad always impressed upon my sister and me the importance of "holding our heads high" as Jews, and to be proud of the accomplishments of our people, be they in Sports, the Sciences, the Arts, Academia, and/or in Life....Along those lines...here is a link to a page in Wikipedia that has an extensive list of "Jews in Sports", both past & present:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jews_in_sports
(Under "Boxing", I am proud to see the name of a distant relative, Max "Slapsie-Maxie" Rosenbloom, a US & World light-heavyweight champion almost 100 years ago, in 1930. During his lifetime, he received many accolades honoring his boxing career, and also appeared in several films ~ and also on TV ~ from the 1930s thru the late 1960s. I met him once, when I was a young-ish child, in my paternal grandparents' backyard, under their magnificent cherry tree.) ~ Cheryl in NJ