“Hank Greenberg in 1938: Hatred and Home Runs in the Shadow of War” (Sports Publishing, 2017) is about the Jewish Hall of Famer as he was trying to make baseball history at the same time that ...

But in a lesser-known dramatic tale just over 30 years earlier, fellow Jewish Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg faced a dilemma of his own as the High Holidays approached. Picture the scene ...

Under Greenberg's tenure, AIG created the financial products unit that oversaw its credit default swaps (CDS). These CDS were what brought AIG near bankruptcy when mortgage bonds that the company ...