Hank GreenbergBy: John Rosengren Baseball during the Great Depression of the 1930s galvanized communities and provided a struggling country with heroes. Jewish player Hank Greenberg gave the people of Detroitand Americaa reason to be proud. But America was facing more than economic hardship. Hitlers agenda heightened the persecution of Jews abroad while anti Semitism intensified political and social tensions in the U. S. The six foot four inch Greenberg, the