Greenberg became the first major league player to hit 25 or more home runs in a season in each league.

Greenberg played 17 games in 1930 for Hartford, then played at Raleigh, North Carolina, where he hit. 314 with 19 home runs.

Dramatically, Greenberg hit two home runs in a 2 – 1 Tigers victory over Boston on Rosh Hashanah.

A prodigious home run hitter, Greenberg narrowly missed breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record in 1938, when he was again voted to the All-Star Team and hit 58 home runs, leading the league for the second time.

Greenberg became the first major league player to hit 25 or more home runs in a season in each league.

Had he played in another era uninterrupted by war, it has often been said that Greenberg would have hit between 500 and 600 home runs and driven in 1800 to 2000 runs.

Greenberg also hit for average, earning a lifetime batting average of. 313.

On September 6, Williams hit his 332nd career home run, passing Hank Greenberg for seventh all-time.

Namely, the disco band Lipps Inc scored their only top 40 pop hit with their iconic song, " Funkytown ," originally penned by bandmember Steven Greenberg.

In order to better promote the group, Greenberg asked songwriter Luther Dixon, who had previously worked with Perry Como, Nat King Cole, and Pat Boone and co-written the 1959 hit " 16 Candles ", to write for and produce songs for them.

When disc jockeys across the nation began to play the track from the album in the fall of 1967 and demanded its release as a single, Florence Greenberg, President of Scepter Records, complied and " I Say a Little Prayer " became Warwick's biggest US hit to that point, reaching # 4 on the U. S. and Canadian Charts and # 8 on the R & B Charts.

Many of Kiner's homers were hit into a shortened left-field and left-center-field porch at Forbes Field ( originally built for Greenberg and known in the press as " Greenberg Gardens "); the porch was retained for Kiner and redubbed " Kiner's Korner ".

On August 15, Cabrera became the first player in Detroit Tigers history to hit 30 home runs in 5 consecutive seasons passing Hank Greenberg ( 1937-40 ) and Cecil Fielder ( 1990-93 ) who each had 4 consecutive 30 home run seasons.

He hit 25 home runs in 1950 ( despite spending part of the season on minor league rehab ) to become the second player, joining Hank Greenberg three years earlier, to have a 25-home run season in both leagues.

" Funkytown " is a 1980 disco hit song written by Steven Greenberg and performed by the band Lipps Inc.

In 2005, the Cubs ' Adam Greenberg was hit in the head with the first, and thus far, the only pitch that he faced in his major league career.

In that season Greenberg hit. 340 with 41 home runs and 150 RBI, and York compiled. 316, 33 and 134, for an American League champion team that lost to the Cincinnati Reds in the 1940 World Series in seven games.

Thus, his name is often invoked when discussing similar players, such as Brian Esposito, whose appearance came with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2007, or a fellow University of North Carolina graduate Adam Greenberg, whose lone MLB appearance with the Chicago Cubs in 2005 ended with him being hit by a pitch.

According to Brian " Small Bird " Fox, Through 2010, Lieberthal may have hit the 5th-most career home runs of any Jewish major league baseball player, behind Hank Greenberg, Shawn Green, Sid Gordon, and Al Rosen, and was 7th on the all-time list in hits ( behind Gordon ) and RBIs ( behind Rosen ).

Together they hit back-to-back home runs six times, tying the major league single-season mark set by the Detroit Tigers ' Hank Greenberg and Rudy York and later matched by the Chicago White Sox's Frank Thomas and Magglio Ordóñez.

In 2002, Greenberg hit. 224 for the Lansing Lugnuts, and. 384 /. 500 /. 575 in 21 games for the Daytona Cubs, swiping 15 bases in 17 games.

In doing so, Greenberg sought to emphasize the fact that Afroasiatic was the only language family that was represented transcontinentally, in both Africa and Asia.

Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial, Alex Rodriguez, and Robin Yount have won at different positions, while Rodriguez is the only player who has won the award with two different teams at two different positions.

Still, Greenberg came in only 3rd in the vote for MVP.

Starring as a first baseman and outfielder with the Tigers ( 1930, 1933 – 46 ) and doing duty only briefly with the Pirates ( 1947 ), Greenberg played only nine full seasons.

Greenberg rejected the view, prevalent among linguists since the mid-20th century, that comparative reconstruction was the only tool to discover relationships between languages.

The only character injured in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode " Older and Far Away " ( 2002 ) wears a red shirt ; writer Drew Greenberg confirmed that this " redshirt " reference was intentional.

In both versions of the comic film To Be or Not to Be the character " Greenberg ", specified as a Jew only in the later version, gives a recitation of the " Hath not a Jew Eyes?

Greenberg suggested this process attained a level of " purity " ( a word he only used within scare quotes ) that would reveal the truthfulness of the canvas, and the two-dimensional aspects of the space ( flatness ).

Yount narrowly won a second MVP Award in 1989, making him only the third player to win MVPs at two positions, joining Hank Greenberg and Stan Musial ( Alex Rodriguez would later join this group ).

Of Jewish major leaguers, only Hank Greenberg, with 331 home runs and 1, 276 RBIs, has more major league home runs and RBIs than Green.

Part of the reason for this is that the Eurasiatic hypothesis rests on mass comparison of lexemes, grammatical formatives, and vowel systems ( see Greenberg 2000 – 2002 ) rather than on the prevailing view that regular sound correspondences, linked to a wide array of lexemes and grammatical formatives, are the only valid means to establish genetic relationship ( see for instance Baldi 2002: 2 – 19 ).

191 RBIs remains one of baseball's most enduring records ; only Gehrig ( 184 ) and Hank Greenberg ( 183 ) ever came close, and there have been no serious challenges in the last 75 years.

Joseph Greenberg worked in the tradition of " lumpers " and following Sapir he accepted kinds of evidence that are not generally acceptable to those who hold that only actual linguistic linguistic reconstruction through the comparative method can yield reliable proof of genetic relationships between languages.

The application of mass comparison led Greenberg not only to propose novel classifications but to break apart previously accepted ones.

Richards was the Tigers ' starting catcher in six games of the seven-game series and, contributed 6 runs batted in, second only to the 7 produced by Hank Greenberg.

With Greenberg out in the military service, York was the only offensive support for the Tigers in 1941.

A groundbreaking use of form, described by American poet and critic Arielle Greenberg as a " text on absence, love, ontology and identity — minus the text ," the content of The Body is delivered only in footnotes, while the usual " body " of work is missing.

Swadesh's Basque-Dennean thus differed from Dené-Caucasian in including ( 1 ) Uralic, Altaic, Japanese, Chukotian, and Eskimo-Aleut ( languages which are classed as Eurasiatic by the followers of Sergei Starostin and those of Joseph Greenberg ), ( 2 ) Dravidian, which is classed as Nostratic by Starostin's school, and ( 3 ) Austronesian ( which according to Starostin is indeed related to Dené-Caucasian, but only at the next stage up, which he termed Dené-Daic, and only via Austric ( see Borean languages )).

Bridges and Hank Greenberg are the only players in Detroit Tigers history to play in four World Series for the team, having appeared in the 1934, 1935, 1940, and 1945 World Series.

Greenberg became the only white legal counselor for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (" LDF ") in 1949, and, in 1961, succeeded Thurgood Marshall as LDF's Director-Counsel.