Mose Solomon

Mose Hirsch Solomon, nicknamed the Rabbi of Swat (December 8, 1900 – June 25, 1966) was an American left-handed baseball player.

[2][7] He became a professional football player, playing as a ringer with Jim Thorpe on the Carlisle Indian School team.

[5][7] In 527 at bats, he also led the league in runs, hits (222), doubles (40), total bases (439), and slugging percentage (.833), and had 15 triples.

He batted over .300 with a number of teams,[7] "but a broken collarbone suffered in a football game in 1924 made it difficult for him to pull the ball, and he never again hit more than seven home runs in a season.

[14] With a great deal of publicity, team manager John McGraw introduced Solomon to the press as the "Rabbi of Swat".

[1][8] Manager McGraw told the press "We appreciate that many of the fans in New York are Jews, and we have been trying to land a prospect of Jewish blood.

[7][12] However, Solomon's batting skills could not compensate for his poor fielding average of only .833 (one error out of six plays), and McGraw kept him languishing on the team's bench.