Jewish baseball fans have created an exhaustive list of Jewish players. They missed Monte Pfeiffer. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish baseball fans have created an exhaustive list of Jewish players. They missed Monte Pfeiffer.

(JTA) — For the first time in decades, a long forgotten major league baseball player has been posthumously identified as Jewish. Monte Pfeiffer, who played a single game for the Philadelphia Athletics some 112 years ago, had vanished into baseball obscurity — until a sharp-eyed Yankees fan uncovered a surprising truth written in Hebrew. The discovery, rooted in dusty box scores, old newspaper articles and genealogical detective work, adds Pfeiff…

Jewish baseball fans have created an exhaustive list of Jewish players. They missed Monte Pfeiffer. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

For the first time in decades, a long forgotten major league baseball player has been posthumously identified as Jewish. Monte Pfeiffer, who played a single game for the Philadelphia Athletics some 112 years ago, had vanished into baseball obscurity — until a sharp-eyed Yankees fan uncovered a surprising truth written in Hebrew. The discovery, rooted in dusty box scores, old newspaper articles and genealogical detective work, adds Pfeiffer to th…