Benny Kauff
Outfielder, Baseball Player
1890 – 1961
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Who was Benny Kauff?
Benjamin Michael Kauff was a professional baseball player, who played centerfield and batted and threw left-handed. Kauff was known as the "Ty Cobb of the Feds." Though he appears on many lists of Jewish baseball players, such as Harry Stein's 1976 Esquire magazine article "All Time All-Star Argument Starter," Kauff was not Jewish. Kauff was banned from baseball in 1921 amid charges of auto theft; despite his acquittal, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis refused to overturn the ban.
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- Born
- Jan 5, 1890
Pomeroy - Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Profession
- Lived in
- Pomeroy
- Died
- Nov 17, 1961
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on July 23, 2013
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