Jewish Athletes

From today's Wall Street Journal article about recent changes to Mark Spitz's legacy:

Mr. Spitz's undisputed stature as one the greatest Jewish athletes of all time -- he routinely makes that list, alongside baseball legends Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg -- doesn't have quite the same cachet to him. "My mother and my mother-in-law and my wife will appreciate that," he says wryly, but it's not what got him into the pool to begin with.