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. Prejudice
and bigotry
in American baseball were
not confined solely to the
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SKY DRAFT
8558 W. 9 Mile
544-1436
Musical Revue From Israel
to Convey History Through Song
w or n Semitic cognomens,
such as Moses, Abraham,
Ikey, Solomon, Aaron, etc.,
or the tribe of numerous
'Skys.' Something wrong. Is
the work too arduous?"
Unfortunately, something
was wrong, but mainly with
the writers Regan and Stahl,
and with men like them. For
the fact is that anti-Semitism
did for many years fester in
the national pastime.
Still, as with the Blacks,
Jews did play the game dur-
ing t h e sport's formative
period — and even as early
as the 1850s and 18605, when
the Pike brothers, Boaz and
Lipman, played baseball as
amateurs in New York.
Later, both of these gentle-
men played with the famous
Brooklyn Atlantics, and Lip-
man (or "Lip" as he was
called) and still another
brother, Jay, went on to be-
come two of the very first
professionals in the country.
But these were not the only
19th Century Jews in b g-
league baseball. There were
others, such as "Chief" J m
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Friday, Jaw 5, 1973-35
black man before the modern Rosenman (outfielder for th
era. Consider the following, Troy - Nationals in D382, an
which was published in a so- for various American As SO
called book of humor by ciation clubs in the eighties)
"Jack" Regan and Will E. Billy Nash (who for 15 years
The recent Broadway hit
Stahl, in the year 1910: "In until the Spanish-American
"To Live Another Summer"
looking over the list of names War played third base, will open with
its all-Israeli
comprising the American and mainly with the Boston and cast at the Jewish Center
National Leagues we fail to Philadelphia clubs of the Na- Jan. 14 and continue through
discover any of those well- tional League, and who ap- Jan. 21, with the exception of
You're Invited . . .
To Our 27111 Inuirersury
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Over Bigotry in Baseball
(From •Baseball: ntsasona la
the Rough," Criterion Books, New
York, London 1372. p.85, 228
itogishned Fiestreissoot
23077 GREENFIELD
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Jews Triumph
Thurs. a Fri. 'til 9
S
peared in over 1,500 games Friday,
during his career), and more, ,
There also will be a mat-
some of whom changed their inee performance 3 p.m. on
obviously Jewish names to the concluding Sunday.
make it easier for them to
The production combines
play — for example, pitcher music and dialogue to
re-
Harry Kane, whose true create Israel's history from
name was Harry Cohen.
biblical times to present day.
And even in the very year
Pieces range from the tra-
1910, when Regan and Stahl
published their bigoted little ditional Ilisidic dances to
joke, two of the greatest Jew
ish ballplayers of all time —
"Big Ed" Reulbach (pitcher
Yiddish Writer
Shneiderman
Due at Forum
and Johnny King (catcher)—
were helping to bring the Na
tional League championship
to Chicago for the fourth time
in five years.
The Labor Zionist Alliance
This "Jewish battery," on of Metropolitan Detroit will
Frank Chance's renowned hold the second in a series of
team of the decade, also hap- Jewish Frontier Forum s,
pened to have performed the with S. L. Shneiderman
only feat of its kind in major-
league history — specifically,
"Big Ed" pitched, while
Johnny King caught, both
games of a doubleheader, and
in doing so, registered two
shutout triumphs in a row!
The occasion was Sept. 26,
1908; the Opposing team was
Brooklyn, 'and the scores
were 5-0 and 3-0, with Reul-
bach giving up a total of only
eight hits in both games.
Furthermore, as The New
York Ti m e s reported it,
"Reulbach did not seem to
be a hit tired."
S. L. SIINEIDERMAN
As anti-Semitism waned in
the major league, increasing • speaking in Yiddish on "Jews
numbers of Jewish athletes in Poland,•' 12:30 p.m. Jan
found their way into th e 21 at the Labor Zionist In-
sport; as with the breakdown stitute.
Shneiderman was a foreign
of the racial barrier, so, too.
the religious barrier disap- correspondent and author in
prewar
Poland. Educated at
peared.
The final irony is that all Warsaw University, he
the "Moes " the "S I „ served as Paris correspond-
and the 'Skys" no longer newel ent for Yiddish and Polish
be concerned about changing dailies. He covered stories on
their "cognomens" to play the Spanish Civil War World
the game; their presence on War II, the collapse of the
the diamond has served only League of Nations and the
rise of the United Nations.
to enrich the pastime.
Witness such names as ! Shneiderman is the author
Morris "Moe" Berg (he was of a series of studies on life
a language scholar and a in Poland. including "The
graduate of three universi- Diary of Mary Berg," "Be-
ties), Charles Solomon Myer tween Fear and Hope." "The
(he played in over 1,900 Warsaw Heresy" and "The
games and accumulated over j Last Chapter." lie also is an
2,100 hits), Jacob "Jake"! author on the history of
Pitler (he played second Soviet Jewry and the Jews of
base for Pittsburgh and later , Poland.
The Jewish Frontier Forum •
was a coach for Brooklyn),
Harry "The Horse" Danning will he hosted by Arlazaroff
(he covered home plate over Avrunin Branch 137 of the •
a ten-year: period with the Labor Zionist Alliance. Re-
Giants), Robert "Bo" Betio- freshments w ill tie served
sky (he pitched a no-hit, no- Tickets will be available at
run game against Baltimore the door Fur information,
in his very first season with call the LZA office, 651 161)6
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Los Angeles), Art Shamsky
(he helped the Mets win both Elan Chanter to Sho w
the National League pennant
and the World Series in 1969),
Ron Blomberg (he captured
the fan's affections in 1971,
' his rookie . year with the
Yankees, by pounding the
ball for a season average of ,
.322), "Ha mmerin' Hank"
Greenberg (he was elected to
baseball's Hall of Fame in
1956) and Sandy Koufax (h e
won three Cy Young Awards,
among many others, and at
the age of 36, be-came the
youngest player ever elected
to the Hall of Fame)."
`Shop on Main Street'
Israeli rock—and songs from
"Sorry We Won It" and "1,14!
What a Lovely War" to
"Don't Destroy the World."
Ilanan Goldblatt provides
the dramatic moment in
"Boy With a Fiddle," relat-
ing how a little boy in the
concentration camp is forced
to play as his people are
being executed.
Tickets are on sale at the
Jewish Center, 341-4200, ext.
237.
People
Ilatke Nth
s
DR. ALBERT SABIN,
president of the Weizmann
Institute and discoverer of
the oral polio vaccine. be.
came Shaare Zedek Hospi-
tal's first recipient of the
"Sian of Science" Award at
the hospital's annual dinner
at the King David Hotel in
Jerusalem. The dinner also
commemorated the 100th an-
niversary of the hospital's
founding fathers, whose -
members came from the
Jewish communities of Ger-
many, and the Netherlands.
• • •
MICHAEL SINGER of
Palm Beach and New York
has been elected chairman
of the board of overseers of
the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine of Yeshiva UM-
versity.
Artist-Lithographer
Edna Hibel to Show
Wcrk at Art Center
"Variations on a Theme,"
the first comprehensive
Michigan exhibition of origi-
nal lithographs by Boston
artist Edna Hibel, will be
held Sunday at the Gallery
Art Center. She will appear
at the gallery from 2 to' 6
p.m. that day, but her works
will he on display there for -
the rest of the month.
More than 150 framed litho-
graphs representing all
facets of her experimental
work in lithography, and
a photographic explanation
of her many innovative litho-
graphic techniques will be
displa.yed.
Miss lithe' (Mni. Theodore
Plotkin) achieves' a variety
of effects with the litho-
graphic proc'e'ss.
Since graduating from the
Boston Museum 'School of
Vine Art in 1939, Miss Hilo.•
has held over 100 "onednan
shows in many of the fore-
most galleries and museums.
She was founder of th , fins
ton Arts Festival and has
been a long time el'
.1
nember of the Royal S., 'y
11 Arts in London
.
Chapter of the Labor
Zionist Alliance will present Technion Starts
"The Shop on Main Street,"
with Ida Karninska and Josef Jubilee Planning
NEW YORK—The First Na-
Kroner. 8:30 p m. Jan 13 in
ional
Jubilee
the Labor Zionist Institute.
Conference
ponsored by the American
For ticket information, call
Technion 'Society will 'take
the LZA office, P51-1606
"The Shop on Main Street " Aare at the Hotel Americana
winner of an Academy Award 1 n Miami Beach, February
as the best foreign film, is 9
set during the early days of-
Leaders of all the society's
the Nazi occupation of Cze- r egions will he represented in
choslovkia Unlike "Anne a joint planning program for
Frank, the film is centered I he jubilee celebration of
not on the victims of genet T echnion's 50th anniversary,
Communism is neither dis- cide, but on the man who Maurice M. Rosen, jubilee
proved by constant aggres- bore witness. : c hairman for the American
sion against Communists out-
Elan Chapter is a young T echnion Society, said.
side of Russia, nor proved adult chapter of single and
by the persecution of non-
Communists inside of Russia.
—Horace M. Kailas.
Elan
married couples. The next
event will be a bowling party
Feb. 24 at Northlanes.
What the country needs is
dirtier fingernails and
cleaner minds.—Will Rogers.
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