 According to "Baseball Almanac", Horwitz was the 159th Jewish player to make the majors.Horwitz became the first Jewish player to play with the Giants since the – tenure of pitcher Jose Bautista, and the eighth since they moved to San Francisco.In , the New York Giants tried to trump up publicity by advertising Mose Solomon as "The Rabbi of Swat," playing across town from Babe Ruth, "The Sultan of Swat."