Hardball Hebrews Exhibit Has Difficulty Finding Venue

Baseball fan (Yankees and Phillies) Howard Goldstein has spent the better part of a lifetime collecting baseball memorabilia concentrating on the subject of Jewish participation. Parts of his collection have been spotlighted in museums around the nation including Cooperstown’s Baseball Hall of Fame.

The last few years saw Mr Goldstein get serious about exhibiting his collection as a whole rather than piecemeal as Hardball Hebrews, An Artful History of Jews & Baseball. Unfortunately the timing was bad as rising antisemitism and now the Israeli/U.S. war on Iran has seen funds to Jewish museums fall dramatically and secular museums are skittish about featuring Jewish exhibits because of terrorist concerns.

The perfect location for such an exhibit, The Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame, showed initial interest but suddenly dropped the idea when the War on Iran began earlier this year…

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