Greg Rhodes, Cincinnati Reds team historian, spoke at the opening of “Chasing Dreams: Baseball & Becoming American,” a new exhibit at the Skirball Museum.
Rhodes traced the role of minority communities in the evolution of the Cincinnati Reds.
The exhibit, organized by the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, will run through Oct. 22.
The Skirball Museum, founded in 1913 as the Union Museum with the assistance of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, was the first formally established Jewish museum in the United States. It is on the campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
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- Lesha Greengus, Sam Greengus, Betsy Schwartz, Marvin Schwartz, Donald Miller and Wilbur Cohen
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- Greg Rhodes, Cincinnati Reds team historian with a slide of Lipman Pike, the Reds’ first Jewish team member, who played for the Reds in 1877-1878.
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- Cobi Weissbach, development director, National Museum of American Jewish History; Abby Schwartz, Skirball Museum director; and Phil Darivoff, board chair, National Museum of American Jewish History
