Larry Ruttman – American Jews and America’s Game – Meet + Greet

Join us at the Book Fair Saturday, May 11th from 1-3pm for a meet and greet with Larry Ruttman, author of American Jews and America’s Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball.
With a foreword by Bud Selig and an introduction by Martin Abramowitz, the book is a history of the larger-than-life role of Jews in America’s pastime and was named Sports Collectors Digest’s #1 Baseball Book of 2013. Compiled from nearly fifty in-depth interviews with players and labor leaders, owners and officials, sportswriters and fans, and even a baseball commissioner, American Jews and America’s Game celebrates the relationship between Jews and American baseball. This oral and cultural history explores issues such as growing up Jewish and dealing with Jewish identity, assimilation, intermarriage, future viability, religious observance, anti-Semitism, and Israel.
Larry Ruttman is lifelong resident of Brookline, Massachusetts. He has been attending ball games at Fenway Park since the days of Ted Williams and Moe Berg. His first book, Voices of Brookline, was a national finalist for the 2005 American Association of State and Local History Award of Merit. A Korean War veteran and a practicing attorney for over fifty years, Larry is amazed that Providence has granted him the privilege to “live his life backwards” in this late-coming and deeply satisfying labor of love.

On June 14, 2013, Larry was honored to be elected as a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, our nation’s first historical society, founded in 1791.