
2026-10-25 18:54 UTC · The Times of Israel
Oscar Levis was a Negro Leagues star — and Jewish. Jewish baseball forgot him
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Jamaican-born pitcher starred in Black baseball in the 1920s; family records and contemporary reports trace his Jewish roots to a Sephardic father
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