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Originally Posted by mattsey9
Interesting to see Johnny Kling up there. Lots of old timers rated him highly as an invaluable member of the Cubs WS teams.
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Kling is an interesting person. There is great wonder about him being Jewish. Some say his original name was Kline, and that like so many others of his day, he changed his name because of prejudice.
For quite a while in his playing days a lot of people thought he was Jewish, but then after he retired and i believe passed away, his wife came out and strongly said he was NOT jewish. However, many believe she purposely lied when saying this since she wanted to get him into the HOF and she knew at that point in time they would not elect a Jew into the Hall.
So its up in the air as to whether he is Jewish or not, and even in a set of Jewish baseball players, they created a card for him and put a question mark after his name!!
Because nobody is sure, I have a card of him (a T205) in my Jewish collection!