Who knew?

"There is talk that I am Jewish - just because my father was Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I speak Yiddish and once studied to be a rabbi and a cantor. Well, that's how rumors get started." - Baseball Clown Prince Al Schacht in My Own Particular Screwball (Al Schacht, Doubleday Publishers, 1955)

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/Jewish_baseball_players.shtml