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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1990

Continued from preceding page

Jack Baroff:
"You either ran all the way to
school or you didn't go."

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Brownsville Boys

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Boys'

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City officials simply threw
the petitions into the trash,
but the Brownsville Boys
were not about to give up.
United and organized — 800
members signed up for the
club that first week — they
soon began receiving dona-
tions of sports equipment.
They formed teams, and the
Boys' Club and other local
groups let them book time at
their facilities. Membership
dues in the club were 1 cent.
The teams' makeup
reflected the neighborhood:
about 85 percent Jewish, 10
percent black, and the re-
maining 5 percent Italian,
Polish and Russian. But
everybody got along because
"the block became more im-
portant than the nation-
ality," Mr. Baroff says. "It
was survival time."
If basketball was the
cream of the neighborhood
crop, baseball ran a close se-
cond. Everybody loved the
Dodgers. So when a member
of the Police Athletic
League, with whom Mr.
Baroff had established close
ties, asked the BBC if they
would like 25 free tickets to
a Dodgers' game. Jack
Baroff balked. How do you
distribute 25 tickets among
800 Dodger fans, virtually
all of whom had never been
to a game?
So they devised a plan.
Two hundred boys came to
the game. Using the tickets,
the first 25 went through the
gates. The police represent-
ative then collected the 25
tickets and, under the guise
of a handshake, passed them
back to Jack. The tickets
were used over and over un-
til everybody got into the
game.
"Most of the guys never
knew that's what happened
until I told them at our 1985
reunion," says Mr. Baroff,
whose nickname was "Doc"
after the "Doc Savage"
novels he loved.

But the BBC became more
than a sports club. On Fri-
day nights, the boys met in
the children's room at the
local library. Their guest
speakers included represen-
tatives of the State Depart-
ment. BBC members helped
each other with homework,
and found jobs for 73 college-
bound young men.
Mr. Baroff also made sure
that many BBCers got to
camp — an incomparable
retreat from the hot summer
streets of Brownsville. He
found the openings by ap-
pealing to every New York
agency he knew. He would
tell them: "Any cancella-

Abe Reles was
outside smoking
a cigarette one
Saturday
afternoon. His
father passed by
and slapped his
son on the face,
yelling, "How
dare you do that
on Shabbos!"
Mr. Reles
immediately put
the cigarette out
and promised, "I
won't do it
again."

tions to camp, you call us.
We'll bring you the kid."
Often, boys learned they
would be spending the
summer at camp only hours
before they were to leave.
Jack Baroff and several
other BBC members would
rush to the boy's home and
tell him to "use some
kerosene to douse your hair
`cause they're going to check
it for nits before you get into
camp, and if you've got
them, you can't go." Then

