Yom Kippur, but it was a
night game after the holiday
ended," he recalled. " 'You
played last year,' they told us.
`Why can't you atone another
day?' On the day the team bus
left for the game, I was wear-
ing sunglasses. My eyes
weren't dry."
Even if Yom Kippur falls
some time in October, it's
usually the pre-season for pro-
s fessional basketball. So Dan-
ny Schayes of the Milwaukee
Bucks — who expects to be
traded — doesn't play and it
rates hardly a mention. His
father, Hall of Famer Dolph
Schayes, never would coach
on Yom Kippur either.
In professional hockey, it'll
also be pre-season during the
High Holy Days, but the
situation is different for the
Jewish players in the NHL.
Mattieu Schneider has been a
regular defenseman for Mon-
treal since he was 20, and pro-
bably could beg off for any
pre-season game scheduled on
Yom Kippur. But this year the
Canadiens have a new coach.
Ronnie Stern of the Calgary
Flames is a forward more
noted for his aggressiveness
than his scoring, and cannot
be sure that his roster spot
won't ao to someone else if he
asks for any special favors.
The same situation applies
in the cases of Mike Hart-
man, another "tough guy"
forward, and aoalie David
Littman, a Buffalo Sabres
farm minor league all-star.
Both will be with the new
Tampa Bay Lightning, where
the roster certainly will be
wide open. Hartman was left
unprotected by Winnipeg. He
formerly played with the
Sabres.
On the other hand, last
year rookie relief pitcher
Wayne Rosenthal asked for
Yom Kippur off, and the Texas
Rangers gave it to him with
no fuss. Of course, by that
time the team had been
eliminated from play-off or
pennant contention, and
Rosenthal — now back in the
minors — was not their top
"long relief" pitcher.
Hall of Fame jockey Walter
Blum, now a racing official,
never rode on Yom Kippur,
nor will leading show jump-
ing rider Margie Goldstein.
But Abbie Gail Weinberg,
who was trying to become a
regular jockey at the Eastern
tracks despite the disadvan-
tage of being deaf, had her
situation explained by her
mother this way:
"A jockey can exercise a
horse almost every day for
weeks or months in anticipa-
tion of being given the mount
when it makes its first start.
If it happened on Yom Kippur
and another jockey got the

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