Jew Scott Feldman loses World Series for Texas

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Scott Wynne Feldman (born February 7, 1983, in Kailua, Hawaii) is a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher for the Texas Rangers.

After going 25–2 in his first two years of college baseball, he was drafted in the 30th round by the Rangers in 2003. Feldman had Tommy John surgery later that year. He followed it up with a minor league career in which he had a 2.70 ERA, and held batters to only 6.6 hits per 9 innings, pitching almost exclusively in relief.

After pitching out of the bullpen while bouncing back and forth between Texas and its Triple-A affiliate in 2005–07, Feldman converted to a starter in 2008. He established himself in 2009 with a breakout season for the Rangers. He was 17–8, tied for 4th in the American League in wins, and tied the major league record with 12 victories on the road


Career statistics
(through 2011)
Win–loss record        33–33  
Earned run average        4.75  
Strikeouts        337


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Early life and high school

The 6' 5" Feldman was big from an early age. His father recalled with a chuckle: "His second-grade teacher made a comment to my wife that it was like 'Alice in Wonderland,' because Scott was always too big for his seat."[1]

As for Feldman's road to the major leagues, "The dream started off like any other kid," Feldman said. "You'd think about it as you were watching games in front of the TV, and you'd think about it playing in the neighborhood park with your friends. You always hope, but you just don't know if it's ever going to happen."[2]

His father, Marshall, an FBI agent who grew up in a Pennsylvania coal mining town and played college baseball at Duquesne, coached Feldman in youth baseball in North California.[3]

Feldman attended Burlingame High School in Burlingame, California, where he pitched a no-hitter.[4] He was known more for his hitting than his pitching during high school.[2] A left-handed hitter, Feldman led the Peninsula Athletic League in batting average as a junior, and nearly matched the feat as a senior.[5] He was also overweight; at one point in high school he was up to 265 pounds.[1][2]

Personal life

Feldman is Jewish, as is his father, and the family belonged to Peninsula Temple Sholom in Burlingame for a period of time.[105]  

As of March 2007, Feldman was one of 13 Jewish baseball players in the major leagues, along with teammate Ian Kinsler.[106][107][108][109][110] He was featured in the edition of Jewish Major Leaguers Baseball Cards, licensed by Major League Baseball, commemorating the Jewish major leaguers from 1871 through 2008.[111] He joined, among others, Kinsler, Brad Ausmus, Kevin Youkilis, Ryan Braun, Gabe Kapler, Jason Marquis, John Grabow, Craig Breslow, Scott Schoeneweis, and Jason Hirsh.[108] In 2009, Feldman was named the Jewish Major Leaguers Pitcher of the Year, in a year in which he had more wins than any other Jewish pitcher since Steve Stone in 1980.[112]

Feldman was also in 2007 one of 32 players born in Hawaii to have made it to the majors.[113]

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