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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/32101/full/32101/ballplayer-lou-limmer-dies/ <br /><br /> <b>Ballplayer Lou Limmer dies</b> <br /> Friday, April 6, 2007 | by <br /><br /><p>Lou Limmer, a first-baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics in the early 1950s who was involved in a piece of Jewish baseball lore, died Sunday, April 1 in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 82. <br /><br /> In a game in Detroit on May 2, 1951, Limmer was a pinch-hitter in the only known time in major league baseball history when a Jewish batter faced a Jewish pitcher with a Jewish catcher. The pitcher was Saul Rogovin and the catcher was Joe Ginsberg. <br /><br /> “Rogovin throws the first pitch and I hit it into the stands, and [umpire Joe] Paparella says, ‘I guess you’re the winner, Lou,’” Limmer recalled of the incident. He appeared in a total of 209 games in the 1951 and 1954 seasons, batting .202 with 19 homers and 62 RBIs. <br /><br /> He later served five years as president of his synagogue, the Castle Hill Jewish Community Center, in his native Bronx, N.Y. — jta</p> <p> </p>

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