Another Jewish MLB Player From The LES: Jonah Goldman, Part 2

Jonah Goldman Syracuse
Jonah's dad apparently was a successful photographer. The family left the LES for the more wide open spaces of Brooklyn soon after 1910. Evidently he was well off enough to send Jonah to Syracuse, where Jonah stared in football as well as baseball.

Another Jewish MLB Player From The LES: Jonah Goldman

Jonah Goldman was born on Wednesday, August 29, 1906, in New York, New York. Goldman was 22 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 22, 1928, with the Cleveland Indians. He died in 1980. For more on Jonah