Jewish Baseball Players in 1973 • Steve Greenberg's Invitation PRICE! 2 OR 1 COMPLETE - By IRWIN COHEN less he gives a good showing There will be eight Jewish in spring training. He is EVERY MON, d TUES. MITES ballplayers in the major Steve Greenberg, Hank leagues this year. One is a Greenberg's son. COME WHERE THE ,;. ACTION IS! rookie and may not stick un- Steve is 24, and is 6 feet ' DANCING 2, with a playing weight of , MON. THRU SAT. 195. He's a graduate of Yale, LENNIE SCHICK and during his college days QUARTET concentrated mostly on play- p ANGEL'S ing tennis. Last year at Den- HOUR GLASS FOR PARTIES ver, he hit .264 with 11 home moo W. *NICHOLS 6 Blocks West of Southfield runs. 538-4850 Steve is primarily a first basemen but can play the outfield. Right now Steve Greenberg is in training with the Texas Rangers, who also have another Jewish player • in first baseman Mike Ep- A/S/U stein. 22900 MICHIGAN AVENUE, Mike came to the Rangers Dearborn (in the Holiday Inn) in an off season trade with Specializing in Meeting the Most Discriminating Tastes the World Champion Oakland With Superior Food, Fine Wines and Cocktails. Athletics. Mike calls himself DINNERS SERVED "Super Jew," but in the PARTIES FOR MON.-SAT., 5 to 11 p.m. All OCCASIONS minds of religious Jews SUN., 12 NOON-10 p.m. LUNCHEONS SERVED ` BANQUET FACIUTIES doesn't rate that title. He MON.-SAT., 11 to 2 p.m. AVAILABLE UP TO 300 decided to play on Yom Kip- FOR RESERVATIONS pur last year and had his 278-6900 ENTERTAINMENT TUES,SAY. ; greatest day in baseball get- ting five hits. After Yom Kippur he dropped off sharp- 1y. He didn't get a hit in the entire World Series, and was taken out for defensive pur- PRIVATE ROOM -FOR • PARTIES poses in the final innings • BAR MITZVAS • SALES MEETINGS of crucial games. Manager _ • BANQUETS Dick Williams benched him for the all important deciding Gala St. Pat's Day Festivities! game. The final blow came MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW! when owner Charlie Finley traded Mike to the last place * UVE ENTERTAINMENT 535-6090 * EXCELLENT CUISINE Rangers for an unknown * SUPER COCKTAILS pitcher. 24502 W. 7 Mile Rd. • * DANCING First baseman Ron Blom- 3 Blks. W. of Telegraph * PLENTY OF PARKING berg of the New York Yan- kees is one player who will not play on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Ron is 24, and the Yankees feel he will be one of the biggest stars in baseball in the not too dis- tant future. Other Jewish players in the American League are pitch- ers Ken Holtzman of the Oak- land Athletics, Steve Stone of the Chicago White Sox, and shortstop Rick Auerbach of the Milwaukee Brewers. The National League has two Jewish players, outfield- ers Norm Miller of the Hous- ton Astros, and Richie Scheinblum of the Cincinnati Reds. Stephen David Greenberg is the No. 2 son of Hall of PRIME RIB DINNER ADAM'S RIB 544-1240 Oah - lig 1 CH AMPIONS HII WRESTLING OLYMPIA - 8:00 P.M. SUNDAY,EV APR R _ MAIN 1 DICK THE BRUISER vs ERNIE LADD FOR THE WWA HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP CHAMPION CHALLENGER BARON VON RASCHKE vs MITSU ARAKAWA COWBOY BOB ELLIS vs YUKON "Moose" CHOLAK HIGO HAMAGUCHI THE BEAST GIRLS' vs BOBBY BOLD EAGLE CLEM TURNER i TEAM BOUT PRINCESS JASMINE MARY JANE MULL RAQUEL DUBOIS T.N. TURNER SPECIAL NOTICE! Camera and Autograph Night with COWBOY BOB ELLIS at 7 P.M. SPECIAL BONUS: Children (14 years old and under) HALF PRICE Tickets are priced at $5, $4 and $3 and can be purchased at the Olympia Box Office and all J. L. Hudson's & Sears Stores. Watch Championship Wrestling every Friday night following the late movie, at. 9 (CKLW). Fenced, lighted and attended parking for 2,500 cars adjacent to Olympia. Fa m e r Hang Greenberg. Steve Greenberg is one of many young players on the Texas Ranger roster, but be- cause of his father and a sur- prisingly fast rise within the Ranger organization, his is a special story. Steve's a 6'2", 195-pound, 24-year-old and had a late start in baseball because he was getting a degree from Yale. When he signed a con- tract, there wasn't a scout in the system who rated him a major league prospect. Now, three years later, the organization's most respected minor league manager, Del Wilber, figures Greenberg is the answer to the club's third base problems. Maybe not this year, because of a lack of seasoning, but in the very near future, he'll take over, Wilber claims. Greenberg is known as a guy with an ever-present friendly smile and gritty de- termination. "He's probably the hardest worker I've ever been associated with in base- ball." Wilber, who managed him last season 'at Denver, said, "Always the first on the field and the last to leave." Steve has this to say, "I've played in places like Geneva and Pittsfield and Burlington the last few years, and peo- ple were always asking me if I can hit like my old man. I tell them you wouldn't see me beating around down here in the bushes if I could. "Hang Greenberg was a great hitter. I happen to be his son, who has average talent. "Because I'm Hank's son, people ask me if there's extra pressure, but really there's none at all, from either my father or my teammates. I certainly wasn't pushed into being a baseball player. I didn't even play until high school. I skipped Little League and all that. In fact, my father jokingly tells me all the time that he didn't send me to Yale to be a ball- player. "As far as my teammate's, I'll bet that 90 per cent of the guys I've played with the last three years didn't even know who Hank Greenberg was, much less what he did. It amuses me. People don't be- lieve it, but it's true. Like I don't 'go around advertising who my dad is, but the word THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 28-Friday, March 23, 1973 will get out and I'll have guys come up and say they heard my father was a pretty good player. They want to know about him." Manager Whitey Herzog is in a pleasant predicament be- cause of Steve's sudden de- velopment. During spring training he planned to look almost exclusively at Joe Lo- vitto, Bill McNulty and possi- bly Jim Mason in an attempt to fill the hole at third base. Herzog says, "But I've got to give Greenberg as much playing time as those other guys, because this kid has got some good equipment, and I like the way he works." Steve Greenberg has an ex- cellent chance of making the team because he can also play first base and the out- field. If Steve makes the team, the Texas Rangers will be- come the only b a 11 c lub with two Jewish players, the other being Steve's competitor at first base Mike Epstein. Prof. Liptzin Honors Laikin In a syndicated review of "Memoirs of a Practical Dreamer" by Benjamin M. Laikin, published by Bloch, Prof. Solomon Liptzin of American College in Jerusal- em pays honor to the Detroit author of the autobiography in which he reconstructs his life's experiences and com- munal labors. Laikin's book first appeared in Yiddish and has just been published in an English translation. Dr. Liptzin describes the recorded account of Laikin's life in Russia, then in Barn: more, Philadelphia and in the Pennsylvania c o a 1 mines, leading up to "his present autumnal years in Detroit" where he prospered, became a leader in Labor Zionism, in the Yiddish schools and many other communal activities. Dr. Liptzin states in his com- ments "Often he met with frustrations in these activi- ties, since he did not see eye to eye with the leaders of Jewish national organizations and was far too combative in voicing his disagreements. But he also found fulfillment as he witnessed a dream come true, Israel rearisen, and his friends, the Labor Zionists, at the helm of gov- ernment in the new state. "Though severe in his ap- praisal of pompous pillars of Jewish society, unveiling their follies and failings, Laikin does not gloss over his own errors of judgment. Self-educated and impelled by ethical attitudes rooted in the shtetl of his childhood and boyhood, he now and then let Utopian visions intrude upon his practical work and then paid the price in suffer- MOVIE GUIDE IkHo 0 D N Americana Complex I, II, III , Greenfield Rd., N. of 9 Mile 358.1414 358-3920 AMERICANA I Julie Andrews in "SOUND OF MUSIC" Wednesday Ladies Day Special Matinees $1 Open 12:30 - 1 Show Only AMERICANA II Steve McQueen, Ali Macgraw "THE GETAWAY" Wed. Ladies Day Special Matinee $1 Open 12:30 - 1 Show Only. AMERICANA III Ryan O'Neal in "THE THIEF WHO CAME TO DINNER" Wednesday Ladies Day Special Matinee $1 Open 12:30 - 1 Show Only 12 Mile-C oolidge LI 2-0330 15 academy award winners incl. Shelly Winters, Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine. BERKLEY ing and in disillusionment with imperfect fellow-men. POSEIDON ADVENTURE" Nevertheless, he did succeed "THE FRI. open 7:00, shown 7:20, 9:25 in rising from poverty to- Saturday, re-open 5:15, Shown 5:35, 7:40, 9:40 moderate affluence and he Sunday open. 1:00, shown did make a significant im- 1:20, 3:25, 5:25, 7:30, 9:30 Week nights open 6:45, pact upon- his community, shown 7:05, 9:10 The Yiddish causes he cham- SAT. MATINEE open 1:00, over pioned were neither glamor- 3:30. "HUCKELBERRY FINN" & Cartoon ous nor popular, but his es- pousal won them greater sup- BIRMINGHAM Maple port and more prestige. "DELIVERANCE" "Laikin's reminiscences not WEEK DAYS OPEN 7:00 only cast light upon the in- Shown 7:20, 9:30 ner motivation of an unusual SAT. & SUN. at 6:00, 8:00 & 10:00 personality 'but also mirror SAT. & SUN. KIDDIE MATINEE "HUCKELBERRY FINN" the many changes that have at 1:00 & 3:00-All Seats 75c overtaken Jewish Detroit Fri. & Sat. MIDNITE MADNESS "ROSEMARY'S BABY" during the past half century. WED. MAT. at 1:00 1 show only $1 His book enriches our under- at 11:15. All Seats $1.50. standing of American Jewish 2 bks. BLOOMFIELD W reality." 'ward MI 4-6006 Paul Newman in Fash Bash to Benefit Youtheater Program Some 15 stars of broadcast, journalism and sports will model clothes to be auctioned and another 50 celebrities will be in the audience urg- ing of the bidding at Fash , / Bash III, the fashion auction and dance benefiting the Art Institute's Detroit Youtheater 6:30 p.m. Monday at Cobo Hall. Sponsored by the Jun i or Council of the Detroit Insti- tute of Arts' Founders Society to aid the live s t a g e pro- grams of the museum , Flash/Bash III will also offer free food and dancing to the 21-piece Brookside Jazz En- semble. Tickets may be picked up at the Art Institute. More than 250,000 'Detroit area pu- pils are enjoying this year's season of live entertainment in the auditorium or in the schools themselves. "THE LIFE & TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN" (PG) Fri. 6:20, 8:30. Sat. 2:00, 4:05, 6:20, 8:35. Sun. 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 Fri. & Sat. MIDNITE MADNESS Open 11 p.m. "ROSEMARY'S BABY" (R) All Seats $1.50. Wed. Starts "CABARET" Matiness at 1:00 1 Show Only - $1. Warren a t Miller 581-5 040 Shelly Winters - Gene Hackman CAMELOT W "THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE" Mon. thru Fri. 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 SATURDAY & SUNDAY 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:10, 10:15 Wednesday Matinee at 1:00 1 Show Only - $1 MAI KAI Plymouth Rd. 9374001 at Farmington Road "FIDDLER ON THE ROOf" MON. THRU THUR. 6:25 & 9:30 FRI. 7:00, 10:15 SAT. 1:00, 3:55, 7:00, 10:15 SUN. 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 9:30 WED. MATINEE 1 Show Only at 1:00-51 Nationalism Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.-Albert Einstein. Wonderful evening of music! CELEBRATED MELODIES FROM _ GREAT COMPOSERS played and discussed from the stage by JAMES DICK Brilliant young winner of 10 awards in personal evening shares insight into music of piano masters Concert Pianist Auditorium, Friday, April 6, 8:30 p.m. THE DEIROIT INSTITITE OF ARTS Founders Concert Series; Edith J. Freeman, Chairman Art Institute Office (831-4678, 831-0360), All Hudson's $6, $5, $4 Or Write Concert Series, 5200 Woodward, Detroit 48202