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\nThe New York Sun - \u2018Baseball, Nazis & Nedick\u2019s Hot Dogs\u2019 Is a Story of Fathers, Sons, and a Lost America - Dean Karayanis
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\nJune 17, 2023 - Reading about history is one thing, but what happens when a legendary sportswriter looks back nearly a century to recall his upbringing in Newark, New Jersey, during the trying decades of the \u201830s and \u201840s \u2013 as a Jewish kid, mind you \u2014 while Wall Street crashed and Hitler made war on the world?
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\nIn this episode, our time machine welcomes aboard a real time-traveler \u2014 at least, that\u2019s how I like to think of people who bring us their memories from days few of us lived. His name is Jerry Izenberg, and his memoir \u2014 the most personal of his many books \u2014 is titled, \u201cBaseball, Nazis & Nedick\u2019s Hot Dogs: Growing up Jewish in the 1930s in Newark.\u201d
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\nJerry Izenberg is one of just two daily newspaper columnists to have covered the first 53 Super Bowls. He\u2019s also been there for 54 consecutive Kentucky Derbies and the last five Triple Crown-winning horses. He earned the Red Smith Award for sports writing, has been named the New Jersey Sportswriter of the Year five times \u2013 oh, and is an inductee in in 17 Halls of Fame.
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\nIn his memoir, Mr. Izenberg \u2013 now in his 90s \u2013 casts his keen eye back on his first two decades of life, the ones that made him who he is today, as he faced antisemitism, the Great Depression, and World War II to find love, community, and purpose. It\u2019s a life well lived, and it ain\u2019t over yet.
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\nThanks to David Pietrusza, author of the upcoming book, \u201cGangsterland: A Tour Through the Dark Heart of Jazz-Age New York City,\u201d for submitting a video question for his fellow baseball writer. You can enjoy my previous interviews with David here:
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\n \tRoosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR\u2019s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal
\n \t1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
\n \t1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR \u2015 Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny
\n \tTR\u2019s Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy
\n \tRothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series
\n \tToo Long Ago: A Childhood Memory. A Vanished World