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Little League Means A Lot
To Parents Of Players, Too

RICHARD PEARL

Staff Writer

E

sther Sherizen feels
it's a chance for her
two sons to have "the
best of both worlds."
ib Jerry Ellis, it's a chance
to push for community
improvements.
To Barry Levine, it's meant
enhancing his relationship
with his children.
lb Susan Shepherd, it's
meant getting 1,400 uniforms
for her "extended family."
And to Ken Chupack, it's
been a way of doing
something for the community.
That's what Little League
baseball, now celebrating its
50th year, means to a sampl-
ing of suburban Detroit
Jewfsh parents.
Sherizen, an Orthodox Jew
from Oak Park got her sons
and two of her friends' sons
into that city's Little League
program.
Young Israel's Softball
League offers an organized
program once a week within
the Orthodox community, but
Sherizen opted for Little
League, which provides boys'
baseball and girls' softball
several days a week to
children from all
neighborhoods.
"It's allowing the kids to go
outside their world," she
acknowledges. "I want my
children to grow up to be Or-

thodox Jews, number one, but
I feel they also have to get
along with other people, too.
I want them to have the best
of both worlds (Jewish and
secular), and I think this is a
good way to do it. I thought it
would help their personal
growth."
Other team members, in-
cluding black and Arabic
youngsters, "have been very
respectful toward the boys,"
she says. Jack Twardokus,
their team coach, and the
Oak Park Recreation Depart-
ment "have been very accom-
modating" in scheduling
practices and games around
the boys' religious
observances.
Sherizen's sons, Yoni, 11,
and Ari, 9, attend Yeshiva
Beth Yehudah day school
with Yudi Hochheiser, 9, and
Yosef Radner, 10.
"Yoni is very athletic," she
says. "He may be playing
hockey next season." Last
year, she put him in the Lit-
tle League Bantam program,
while Yosef Radner was
enrolled in the Midgets.
"My son loves the competi-
tion," she says of Yoni. "It
really gives him the chance to
stretch his athletic abilities
like he needs to do. It teaches
him sportsmanship, good
leadership and it's improved
his self-esteem."
Sherizen enrolled Ari this
year in Midgets, where he
and Yudi joined Radner.

Jerry Ellis of Farmington
Hills has used his dual roles
— North Farmington-West
Bloomfield (NFWB) league
president and Farmington
Hills parks and recreation
commission board member —
to push for more athletic
fields and sidewalks.
With some 106 teams and
1,400 youngsters — about 30
percent of whom are Jewish —
the league is one of the
largest and fastest growing in
the northwest suburban area.
Its program operates seven
days a week to accommodate
the kids, he says, acknowledg-
ing scheduling conflicts
which can't always be avoid-
ed, for observant Jews as well
as others.
Ellis, "a part-time attorney
and fulltime baseball ad-
ministrator" because of the
league's nearly year-round
administrative schedule, says
more ballfields are needed,
particularly in West Bloom-
field, which provides about
half the youngsters but only
six fields, compared to 18
fields in Farmington Hills.
Farmington Hills opened
four new fields this year —
two baseball and two soccer —
and put in 25 new infields at
a cost of $125,000, he says.
Recent sidewalk installations
along major roads allow some
youngsters to bicycle to
games instead of being driven
there by parents.
"My biggest thrill," says the