Baseball almost-great Al Rosen; ballet impresario René Blum

Follow Tablet Magazine: July 12, 2011   Prominent Synagogue Badly Damaged in Fire Upper East Side's Kehilath Jeshurun is affiliated with the Ramaz school Daybreak: Clinton Throws Assad Under Bus Plus the peace process lacks a pulse, and more in the news More from THE SCROLL Hammer Time For a few glorious years, Al Rosen was the next Hank Greenberg. But his career ended prematurely, thanks to physical injuries, mental slumps—and Hank Greenberg. BY Bethlehem Shoals Baseball reserves a special place in its heart for the what-ifs. They can be white-hot blips like Herb Score, the Cleveland Indians pitcher whose face was shattered by a bullet line drive in 1957 after two dominant seasons in the majors. Or they can take the form of Sandy Koufax, who gave us just enough sustained genius to prove, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that injuries abbreviated one of baseball's greatest careers. More Ballet Master In the new biography René Blum and the Ballets Russes: In Search of Lost Life, the early 20th-century impresario—who died at Auschwitz and symbolizes the tragedy of French Jewry—remains a riddle More BY Adam Kirsch This email was sent to you by Tablet Magazine. To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add digest@tabletmag.com to your address book. To unsubscribe to this email, reply to this email with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Tablet Magazine | 37 West 28th Street, 8th floor | New York, NY 10001 Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend