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Record W4210718514 · doi:10.1353/nin.2021.0002

How Hammerin' Hank Greenberg Inspired RBG

2021· article· en· W4210718514 on OpenAlex
A. J. Kempner

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Bibliographic record

VenueNine · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicJewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHonorBrotherJudaismCharacter (mathematics)Art historyHistoryArtSociologyTheologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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How Hammerin' Hank Greenberg Inspired RBG Aviva Kempner (bio) For many American Jews observing Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement creates a challenge at our workplaces. Usually, the dilemma is whether we can arrange to take the day off to attend services. One of the most famous American stories exemplifying this choice occurred in 1934 when Jewish slugger Hank Greenberg, at the tender age of twenty-three, chose to honor his parents and observe the holiday. The much-needed home-run hitter went to synagogue instead of Tiger Stadium during a tense pennant race in Detroit, a city noted for its anti-Semitism in the 1930s. My father would retell this story of Greenberg's courageous decision every Yom Kippur when he drove my brother and me to synagogue. We heard this story so often that I grew up thinking Hank Greenberg was part of Yom Kippur's opening Kol Nidre services. In 2007, I interviewed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a documentary I was making on the radio and television pioneer Gertrude Berg. She shared how the Molly Goldberg character and her creator were impressive female role models for her as a young girl listening to the radio show with her family in Brooklyn. As I had previously made a documentary about Hank Greenberg, I decided to also ask whether she had any issues in observing Yom Kippur while sitting on the Supreme Court. I was so pleased when Ginsburg answered by bringing up Greenberg as her inspiration for how to treat the holiday. As Justice Ginsburg described it, "The question of Yom Kippur and what to do about it was an issue at the Court when I was a new justice. The situation was different from what it was for Hank Greenberg. Hank Greenberg exercised a personal choice, but the game went on."1 Ginsburg admitted that for her and Justice Stephen Breyer, who is also Jewish, the game could have gone on. "The question was not whether I would sit, or Justice Breyer would sit. The court could go on and we could participate because we could listen to the arguments on tapes." Ginsburg then described why they went one step further if the Court was scheduled to meet on Yom Kippur. She said: [End Page 47] The reason Justice Breyer and I persuaded our colleagues that no one should sit, that the game should not go on, the argument should not go on, is that many of the lawyers who were scheduled to appear in cases on that day, would be put to a terrible choice, and it was thinking about not ourselves, but the people who come to plead before the court, they shouldn't be put to that kind of choice. Ginsburg concluded by explaining why they used the Greenberg example: We referred to him because everyone knew who he was, he was such a great ball player, as someone who couldn't betray his conscience in that way. And comparing his situation to the situation of the lawyers who would argue before us I think was effective. On that day of filming at the Supreme Court, I was thrilled to learn that the courageous stand of a 1930s American Jewish hero on the baseball field had inspired my modern-day Jewish heroine on the Supreme Court. Aviva Kempner aviva kempner is a filmmaker in Washington, DC. Her films include The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, which earned a Peabody Award, and The Spy Behind Home Plate, about catcher and OSS spy Moe Berg. Her latest project is Imagining the Indians, a documentary about the movement to remove Native American names, logos, and mascots from the world of sports and beyond. note 1. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, directed by Aviva Kempner (1998; Washington DC: Ciesla Foundation, 1998), DVD with Bonus Features. Copyright © 2022 University of Nebraska Press

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.938
Threshold uncertainty score0.835

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.039
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.242 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it