World’s most complete Jewish baseball card collection
When Seymour Stoll was young, he loved collecting baseball cards.
One day when he was 14, Stoll opened a pack of Topps and pulled a card of Los Angeles Dodgers great Sandy Koufax. With Stoll being Jewish, he was excited to acquire a card of a well-known player with the same culture.
Stoll went to show his dad his cardboard treasure.
“He said to me, ‘Why don’t you collect all of the Jewish players?’” Stoll recalled. “I said, ‘Well, this will be pretty easy.’ It’s like the joke with the thinnest book on Earth with the Jewish athletes in it. So, I figured it would take me like a couple of weeks, a month or two. It ended up taking me 45 years to do everything. My father challenged me to do it.”
It’s been Stoll’s labor of love ever since. The 67-year-old now owns the most complete Jewish baseball card collection in the world, having at least one card of every Jewish player who has ever played in the majors.
As of the end of the 2019 season, there have been a confirmed 177 Jewish players and another 14 whom Stoll calls “Jewish
