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.

His classification was the standard one for many years ( Greenberg 1955: 3 ).

It was superseded by those of Joseph Greenberg in 1955 and especially in 1963.

Among the investors was Bob Hope, who had grown up in Cleveland, and former Tigers slugger, Hank Greenberg.

Indians executive Hank Greenberg was not happy about the trade and neither was Maris, who said that he could not stand Lane.

Henry Benjamin " Hank " Greenberg ( January 1, 1911 – September 4, 1986 ), nicknamed " Hammerin ' Hank " or " The Hebrew Hammer ," was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s.

A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one of the premier power hitters of his generation.

Greenberg was a five-time All-Star, was twice named the American League's Most Valuable Player, and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1956.

Greenberg was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, became the very first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 / year in salary ( he was paid $ 100, 000, ($ today ) plus $ 25, 000 that his contract with Detroit called for in the event they sold or traded him ).

Greenberg was the first Jewish superstar in American professional sports.

Hank Greenberg was born Hyman Greenberg on January 1, 1911, in Greenwich Village, New York City to Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents David and Sarah Greenberg, who owned a successful cloth-shrinking plant in New York.

In seven of the nine years in which he was active, Greenberg was one of the dominant players in the game.

The Detroit press was not so kind regarding the Yom Kippur decision, nor were many fans, but Greenberg in his autobiography recalled that he received a standing ovation from congregants at the Shaarey Zedek synagogue when he arrived.

In 1935 Greenberg led the league in RBIs ( 170 ), total bases ( 389 ), and extra base hits ( 98 ), tied Foxx for the AL title in home runs ( 36 ), was 2nd in the league in doubles ( 46 ), slugging percentage (. 628 ), was 3rd in the league in triples ( 16 ), and in runs scored ( 121 ), 6th in on base percentage (. 411 ) and walks ( 87 ), and was 7th in batting average (. 328 ).

In 1937 Greenberg was voted to the All-Star Team.

In the late 1990s and 2000s, prolonged litigation over copyright of the magazine as a collective work in Greenberg v. National Geographic and other cases caused National Geographic to withdraw from the market The Complete National Geographic, a digital compilation of all its past issues of the magazine.

Gebhart was filed in 1951 in the Delaware Court of Chancery by lawyers Jack Greenberg and Louis L. Redding under a strategy formulated by Robert L. Carter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Greenberg is a past Chairman of the Intellectual Property Committee for the IEEE, and has received the Institute's National Citation of Honor.

The team of Greenberg and Golic has also worked in other ESPN ventures, including a game show ( ESPN Bowling Night ), and coverage of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

It was announced in June 2007 that Greenberg and Golic would also call a National Football League game together for ESPN, broadcasting the second game of ESPN's Week 1 Monday Night Football doubleheader along with former NFL coach and player Mike Ditka.

In an appearance with former U. S. Representative Bob Ney and former Greenberg Traurig lobbyist Neil Volz on Kojo Nnamdi's National Public Radio affiliate WAMU-FM radio show, Alex Gibney, director and writer of the 2010 film

* 2004 Interview on National Public Radio with Tavis Smiley: ' Brown ' Lawyer Jack Greenberg

Greenberg is the American League record holder for most RBIs in a single season by a right-handed batter — 183 RBI in 1937 ( a 154-game schedule.

) Only left-handed batter Lou Gehrig's 184 RBI in 1931 surpasses Greenberg in the American League record books.

Megdal's article cited this walk percentage statistic as evidence of American League teams not wanting Greenberg to break Babe Ruth's record due to anti-Semitism.

Jewish fans in Detroit —- and around the American League for that matter — took to Greenberg almost at once, offering him everything from free meals to free cars, all of which he refused.

Vincent would later contend that Major League Baseball made a huge mistake by not appointing his deputy commissioner Steve Greenberg — the son of the Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg — as the commissioner.

In December 1956, Major League owners considered a proposal by Cleveland general manager and minority-owner Hank Greenberg to implement limited interleague play beginning in 1958.

* Hank Greenberg, US Major League Hall of Fame baseball player

With Ferrell calling the pitches in 1935, his brother pitched to an impressive 25-14 won-loss record to finish as runner-up to Hank Greenberg in voting for the American League Most Valuable Player Award.

** American League: Hank Greenberg, Detroit Tigers

One year later in 1960, Veeck and former Detroit Tigers great Hank Greenberg, his partner with the Indians and White Sox, reportedly made a strong bid for the American League expansion franchise in Los Angeles, California, with Veeck as a minority partner.

The 1937 All-Star game, played at Griffith Stadium, featured these seven American League players, from left to right: Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg.

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.

The 1932 Exporters won 100 games and the Texas League championship, with Rowe pitching and future Detroit Tigers teammate Hank Greenberg leading the team in batting.

In 1947, Greenberg and the Tigers had a lengthy salary dispute.

Greenberg played first base for the Pirates in 1947 and was one of the few opposing players to publicly welcome Jackie Robinson to the majors.

Greenberg with the Pirates in 1947.

In his final season of 1947, Greenberg tied for the league lead in walks with 104, with a. 408 on-base percentage and finished eighth in the league in home runs and tenth in slugging percentage.

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.

After the 1947 season, Greenberg retired from the field to become the Cleveland Indians ' farm system director and two years later, their general manager and part-owner along with Bill Veeck.

In 1947, with the participation of Rabbi Simon Greenberg his efforts toward that end culminated in the establishment of the American Jewish University, then known as the University of Judaism.

In his first bout, at the 1947 Golden Gloves, he suffered a broken nose and lost by technical knockout in two rounds to Myron Greenberg.

( According to Baseball Almanac, Hank Greenberg was the first with Pittsburgh in 1947.

In 1947, well after Dreyfuss ' death, and upon the arrival of veteran slugger Hank Greenberg, the bullpens were moved from foul territory to the base of the scoreboard in left field and were fenced in, cutting from the left field area, from to down the line and to in left-center field.

As had been true the previous year, a large number of players received votes, though few players were named who had not appeared in the 1948 vote apart from the newly eligible 1947 retirees ( prominently, Mel Ott and Hank Greenberg ); every still-eligible player who received more than 2 votes in 1948 was again named.

Clement Greenberg wrote in 1947 that Böcklin's work " is one of the most consummate expressions of all that was now disliked about the latter half of the nineteenth century.

By the time his second book appeared, The Fall of Magicians ( New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947 ), Kees had already been painting for more than a year and had befriended a number of Abstract Expressionism artists, including Willem De Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, as well as the critic Clement Greenberg — whose column Kees took over at The Nation from 1948 to 1950.

Dr. Wexler was preceded in the presidency by Dr. Simon Greenberg ( 1947 – 1963 ) and Dr. David Lieber ( 1963 – 1992 ).