Leon Feingold

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Leon Feingold (born May 1, 1973) is a baseball player from Oceanside, New York. He was the first pitcher drafted by the Netanya Tigers in the Israel Baseball League^[1]. The former Cleveland Indians minor leaguer was named to the IBL All-Star team, and was voted 2007 IBL Player of the Year^[2].

He has also gained international repute as a competitive eater. Known as "Justice", Feingold was ranked as high as #12 in the world by the International Federation of Competitive Eating^[3]. He won the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Regionals three times, and competed in the July 4th World Championships at Coney Island three times. He was the second person in history to successfully complete the Carnegie Deli Challenge (two 3 1/2 sandwiches of turkey, corned beef, swiss cheese, and toppings in one sitting), doing it in just under two hours (Ed "Cookie" Jarvis completed the challenge the same day an hour later after three hours of eating)^[4]. He has appeared on several televised eating contests, including the US Open of Competitive Eating^[5] and the Glutton Bowl^[6].

Feingold is currently Vice President of the Greater New York chapter of Mensa, the largest chapter of the high IQ society in the world^[7]. He is also Senior Warden in his Masonic Lodge, Perfect Square #204.

He currently lives in Manhattan and works as a real estate broker for Cooper & Cooper and co-manages a sports and entertainment law firm (Bring Heat Industries).

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