Shver Tsu Zayn A Yid! [It’s hard to be a Jew!] Sholom Aleichem (1914)

Although both Rav Moshe Feinstein and the Lubavitcher Rebbe discouraged the usage of this discouraging phrase, it’s undeniably true, 613 times over.

It’s also true it’s hard to be a baseball fan. There are 30 teams. Only one wins the World Series to become champion. That means, on average, over the course of six decades, fans are only twice satisfied.

That is if you’re lucky! For example, the Philadelphia Phillies, the oldest same city, same name franchise in American sports history have only won the World Series twice in their 143-year existence.

It’s even harder to be a Jewish baseball fan who makes Aliya to Israel.

Once, baseball was a daylight game. (The first Wrigley Field night game was not until........

© The Times of Israel (Blogs)