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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.
Much of the classification of African languages associated with Joseph Greenberg actually derives from the work of Westermann.
Functional grammar is strongly associated with the school of linguistic typology that takes its lead from the work of Joseph Greenberg.
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 turned them down and instead attended New York University for a year, after which he signed with the Detroit Tigers for $ 9, 000 ($ today ).
Greenberg played 17 games in 1930 for Hartford, then played at Raleigh, North Carolina, where he hit. 314 with 19 home runs.
" Greenberg did considerable soul-searching, and discussed the matter with his rabbi ; finally he relented and agreed to play on Rosh Hashanah, but stuck with his decision not to play on Yom Kippur.
In 1936 Greenberg re-broke his wrist in a collision with Jake Powell of the Washington Senators in April of that year.
Greenberg hit the only two homers by the Tigers — one in Game Two, where he batted in three runs in a 4 – 1 win ; the other — a two-run job — tied the game in the eighth inning of Game Six, making the score 8 – 8, but the Cubs won that game with a run in the bottom of the 12th.
Team co-owner Bing Crosby recorded a song, " Goodbye, Mr. Ball, Goodbye " with Groucho Marx and Greenberg to celebrate Greenberg's arrival.
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.
Nevertheless, Greenberg retired as a player to take a front-office post with the Cleveland Indians.
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 1949, Larry Doby also recommended Greenberg scout three players Doby used to play with in the Negro leagues: Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and Willie Mays.
In, Greenberg and Veeck teamed up for a second time when their syndicate purchased the Chicago White Sox ; Veeck served as team president with Greenberg as vice president and general manager.
Greenberg later became a successful investment banker, briefly returning to baseball as a minority partner with Veeck when the latter repurchased the White Sox in 1975.
In 1966, Greenberg married Mary Jo Tarola, a minor actress who appeared on-screen as Linda Douglas, and remained with her until his death.
In 1995, Stephen Greenberg co-founded Classic Sports Network with Brian Bedol, which was purchased by ESPN and became ESPN Classic.
* In 1983, the Tigers celebrated " Greenberg-Gehringer Day " at Tiger Stadium, honoring Greenberg with the retirement of his uniform number 5 and former teammate Charlie Gehringer with the retirement of his number 2.

Greenberg and Pirates
When Greenberg decided to retire rather than play for less, Detroit sold his contract to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Pirates also reduced the size of Forbes Field's cavernous left field, renaming the section " Greenberg Gardens " to accommodate Greenberg's pull-hitting style.
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.
After the season, the Pirates convinced future Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg not to retire.
Greenberg retired after the season, but by then Ralph Kiner was an established slugger with the Pirates, and the bullpen was redubbed " Kiner's Korner ".
On April 2, 2006, their fourth anniversary as owners, Greenberg and his group announced an additional four-year extension on the development agreement with the Pirates, keeping the Curve's affiliation intact through at least the 2010 season.
Pirates ' vice-president Steve Greenberg said, " We said when construction began that we would build the best ballpark in baseball, and we believe we've done that.
One of his first moves was dramatic – selling aging superstar Hank Greenberg to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Greenberg and 1947
In 1947, Greenberg and the Tigers had a lengthy salary dispute.
Greenberg was traded to the National League in 1947, which was Jackie Robinson's rookie year.
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 ).

Greenberg and .
Always, in the abortive attacks upon Ruth's record, one man alone -- a Jimmy Foxx ( 58 in 1932 ) or a Hank Greenberg ( 58 in 1938 ) or a Hack Wilson ( 56 in 1930 ) -- made the bid.
`` Even on the basis of 154 games, this is the ideal situation '', insists Hank Greenberg, now vice-president of the Chicago White Sox.
However, it did not come into general use until Joseph Greenberg ( 1963 ) formally proposed its adoption.
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.
Greenberg ( 1963 ) and others considered it a subgroup of Cushitic, while others have raised doubts about it being part of Afroasiatic at all ( e. g. Theil 2006 ).
The Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic and Korean-Japanese-Ainu groupings were also posited by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ) who, however, treated them as independent members of a larger family, which he termed Eurasiatic.
* Gershenson, Daniel E. and Greenberg, Daniel A.
Clement Greenberg, for instance, argued in 1960 that each artistic medium should seek that which makes it unique among the possible mediums and then purify itself of anything other than expression of its own uniqueness as a form.
* Greenberg, Clement ( 1960 ), " Modernist Painting ", The Collected Essays and Criticism 1957-1969, The University of Chicago Press, 1993, 85-92.
It was superseded by those of Joseph Greenberg in 1955 and especially in 1963.
* Greenberg, Joseph H. 1955.
* Greenberg, Joseph H. 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.
Various linguists have seen these North Eurasian languages as part of: < ul >< li > a Ural – Altaic language family ( popular until 1960s )</ li >< li > a Uralic and an Altaic family ( Anna V. Dybo | Dybo, Roy Andrew Miller | Miller, Nicholas Poppe | Poppe )</ li >< li > separate Uralic, Turkic languages | Turkic and Mongolian language | Mongolian families ( Gerard Clauson | Clauson, Gerhard Doerfer | Doerfer, Stefan Georg | Georg )</ li >< li > a Eurasiatic or Nostratic macrofamily ( Joseph Greenberg | Greenberg, Sergei Starostin | Starostin, Allan Bomhard | Bomhard )</ li ></ ul >
* Greenberg, J. H. ( 1978 ) " How does a language acquire gender markers?

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