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since baseball is played
during the warm months."
Southfield resident
Joanne Levine remembers
as a child pretending to be
a Tigers pitcher while win-
ding up and throwing an
imaginary ball in her back
yard.
She has memories of
staying up late with her
mother, Ruth Traurig, dur-
ing the 1968 Tigers World
Series season. Now a
mother of three, she bases
her day on the success and
defeats of her favorite
baseball team. A good day
is a Tiger win. A bad day
happens when they lose or
if they don't play at all.
The off-season is too long.
"When the baseball sea-
son is over, I start going
through my post-season
depression," she said.
"Nothing replaces baseball
for me. I've tried hockey;
I've tried basketball. But
they just don't do it.
"When baseball is in sea-
son, I feel hopeful. It's a
way of being outside, a way
of being away from every-
thing. I know the Tigers
aren't always going to win,
but knowing that they're

playing is sometimes
enough.
"After my first child was
born, I was having severe
postpartum depression,"
she said. "My husband
said, 'Let's go to a baseball
game.' We went to about 15
games that summer. It was
the fix I needed."
Southfield attorney Rob-
ert Brown is also a lifer
when it comes to baseball.
His love for baseball is so
far-reaching that he knows
how to pick up games from
Cincinnati, Cleveland and
Pittsburgh on his radio. He
especially is fond of the
baseball talk shows he can
get out of Toronto and New
York. But it doesn't matter
who is playing; he'll listen.
He had a tremendous
sense of euphoria last Oc-
tober when the Twins
defeated the Braves in one
of the more exciting World
Series. But, he added,
shortly after the seventh
game ended, he also expe-
rienced a strong sense of
letdown.
"No more double plays,
no more pitches on the
black (the edge of home
plate), no more listening to
the special voices of

