(JTA) — Jewish (and many non-Jewish) baseball fans know the names and achievements of Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg, along with their hallowed status in the greater American Jewish history books.

Plenty of players have worn No. 15 throughout the long history of baseball, and with 2015 upon us, MLB.com takes a look at 20 Major Leaguers who have excelled while wearing the number. Here are the 20 ...

Ichiro Suzuki was one of the faces of baseball during ... the way for a generation of players in the process as the first Japanese-born position player in MLB history. Now he is forever enshrined ...

And several of those former Seattle players are among the highest-paid athletes in the history of the game ... 18) and infielder Adrian Beltre (No. 20). The graphic shared the team that paid ...

cheaper players. Fortunately for baseball’s elite, the bull market at the top end has some momentum: Of the 11 largest contracts in MLB history, nine began within the last three years.