{"id":96509,"date":"2022-07-22T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=96509"},"modified":"2022-07-13T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:29:43","slug":"13-00-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=96509","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Ex-MLB Outfielder Recalls Facing Antisemitism, Fan Giving Nazi Salute"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Jewish Ex-MLB Outfielder Recalls Facing Antisemitism, Fan Giving Nazi Salute<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Former New York Mets outfielder Shawn Green. Photo: Wknight94 via Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Former professional baseball player Shawn Green revealed in an interview that he faced antisemitism from teammates and fans several times while playing in the minor leagues.<\/span><\/p>\n

Green, who retired in 2008, played in the major leagues for the Toronto Blue Jays, Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Mets during his 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career. During a Q&A with the Los Angeles Times<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a> for the publication\u2019s \u201cDodgers Dugout\u201d column, Green said that when he was in the minors, he experienced antisemitism \u201ca couple times,\u201d notably from teammates who made antisemitic comments without knowing he was Jewish.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne teammate, who I got along with well was just kind of egging me on with some derogatory comments,\u201d he told the outlet. Green then opened up about an encounter with an antisemitic fan.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne time a guy looked at me and gave the \u2018Heil Hitler\u2019 salute. That was pretty disturbing,\u201d he shared. \u201cI just get more upset that some people kind of have that much anger that they feel like they need to get it out. It just didn\u2019t make any sense to me. So yeah, not many times, but there\u2019s certain ones that strike a nerve, and that one definitely did.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Green also noted that his Jewish fans show him lots of \u201csupport and love,\u201d adding that in \u201cevery city I went to I had Jewish fans that would come to me and say things in Hebrew or Yiddish.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The former MLB outfielder has previously expressed pride in his Jewish heritage, once sitting out a Dodgers game because it fell on the Yom Kippur holiday. In May, he participated in a virtual White House event to commemorate Jewish American Heritage Month, where he spoke about traveling with his former MLB teams and seeing a \u201csmall little fan base in every city of Jewish kids.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

During the online event he also recalled one game in the majors when he saw a fan of the opposing San Francisco Giants perform a Nazi salute from the bleachers. He said<\/a> at the time, \u201cYou kind of just feel sad \u2014 not as much angry as just sad \u2014 that people have that type of hatred, anger, frustration, and they have no outlet for it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jewish Ex-MLB Outfielder Recalls Facing Antisemitism, Fan Giving Nazi Salute Shiryn Ghermezian Former New York Mets outfielder Shawn Green. Photo: Wknight94 via Wikimedia Commons. Former professional baseball player Shawn Green revealed in an interview that he faced antisemitism from teammates and fans several times while playing in the minor leagues. Green, who retired in 2008, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96758,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96509\/revisions\/96758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}