to know, oh please don't ever let
him go. If the Detroit pennant
isn't this year, I'll turn to my pil-
low for the tears. I love the
Tigers I really do, if only my
dreams about them could come
true."
From a cardboard box
marked Barb's Baseball, she
pulled out a handful of red yarn
attached to baseball cards of
each of the 1968 Tigers.
"I can't believe this. I haven't
thought about these in years. I
used to have these hanging from
my ceiling as a mobile," she

said. She singled out a few, in-
cluding Bill Freehan's, to take to
Florida with her.
Weeks before her departure
date, Ms. Goode began to prepare
for the trip. She worked on break-
ing in her new black high-top
cleats by walking around her
Bloomfield Hills home. The new
mitt also needed breaking in so
she followed the advice of a friend
and lathered it with shaving
cream with lanolin.
Ms. Goode, an avid walker,
had to physically prepare for the
week too. Aside from walking,

stretching and using some light
weights, she practiced throwing
with her 11-year-old son in the
basement.
Mr. Goode had no reservations
about his wife spending a week
with the all-male participants.
"Baseball is something she has a
love for," he said.
Mr. Goode has grown to un-
derstand baseball over the years
and knows more now than "the
nothing" he knew when he first
met his wife. "I've acquired an in-
terest," he said. "But then again,
I don't really have a choice." ❑

ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Top:
Scrapbook memories
from a winning season.

Right
Barb Goode's 1968
World Series tickets.

ticipants are out to have a good front porch in the summer time,
time. The competition level is de- watching cars go by and listen-
signed for_fun and entertainment. ing to games on a transistor ra-
This is not a tryout camp."
dio," Ms. Goode said.
Ms. Goode, who played second
Highlights from her almost 30-
base, center field and right field year career as a fan of the Tigers
during camp, stressed that she include:
did not feel the least bit intimi-
• In 1981 she was one of five
dated. "Not for one minute," she fans selected for a Detroit Free
said. "I was very well received." Press Fans Panel. It allowed her
With celebrity teammates Vir- to attend several games and have
gil Trucks and Steve Kemp, Ms. her predictions and opinions ap-
Goode played a total of nine pear in print.
• Ms. Goode still has her tick-
et stubs from Game Four and
Game Five of the 1968 World Se-
"Baseball is a way ries.
The ticket prices were $6
of life."
and $8. The 1971 All-Star Game,
held in Detroit, cost Ms. Goode
— Barb Goode
$12. That ticket is also tucked
away in her scrapbook.
• Her collection of Tiger mem-
games. During her 20 at bats she orabilia includes several child-
logged three hits.
hood diary entries on the Tigers
"As the days went on I got bet- and letters to her favorite play-
ter and felt more confident in my ers.
playing," she said.
The 12-year-old's entry from
Ms. Goode has no idea what July 13, 1968, a poem about Bill
turned her on to baseball. She Freehan, reads:
grew up in Oak Park, the
"I love a guy who I've never
youngest of three sisters and the met, but he is so wonderful, that
only one to mimic her father's I can bet. He does so much behind
love of the game.
the plate. I feel he'd be the last I'd
"I can remember sitting on my hate. He is the one who I'd love

'We are helping educate the world about Ju-
daism," Dr. Gad-Harf said "Often, it's the first
time some people have met a Jew. s better than
any program on anti-Semitism."
Others planning Mitzvah Mania are Julie Au-
gust, Joan Bassey, Barbara Hechtman, Fran He-
icklen, Norm Hendry, Rise Jurwitz, Sher Kaplan,
Diane Krome, Joan LaBelle, Barbara Moretsky,
Marilyn Moss, Diane Rubinstein, Frank Russ,
Mark Siegler, Marcie Singerrnan, Barbara Trun-
sky, Dr. Jerome Wolfe and Marci Zeman. Li

fl To volunteer or for more information, con-
tact Temple Israel, 661-5700.

FEB RUA RY

I

n a single afternoon you. could do a lot of laun
dry, go to the mall, pick up a few odds and ends
at the grocery store, or help change the world.
Next month, members of Temple Tsrael, and
others in the community, will join for Mitzvah Ma-
nia, a one-day program that will place volunteers
at agencies throughout the city. Among those ben-
efiting will be the hungry, senior citizens, persons
with AIDS and terminally ill children.
"It can be difficult nowadays for people to take
on long-term projects," said Dr. Nancy Gad-Harf,
Temple IsraePs director of programming and de-
velopment. "But they still want to be able to do
mitzvot."
The March 24 event is being planned by the
temples social action committee, chaired by Susie
Leemaster and Karen Rouff. Russell Barnett is
chairman of Mitzvah Mania day.
"The most exciting aspect of the day is that it
provides our temple community with the ability
to have everyone, including children in the nurs-
ery, the youth group, singles, young marrieds,
baby boomers and seniors — the whole megillah
— get involved in a single day of mitzvot," Mr. Bar-
nett said.
So far, more than 275 volunteers already have
signed up. That means not only a lot of kind deeds,
but a lot of paperwork. Mitzvah Mania is not sim-
ply a matter of directing indivi_duals to an agency.
Volunteers are allowed to pick from a number of
groups, and work either in the morning or the af-
ternoon.
To put it all into place required a large com-
mittee, with one person coordinating each agency.
Yad Ezra wants volunteers — how many? What
times? What will volunteers be doing? Can chil-
dren contribute as well? Will volunteers know how
to get there?
Although a single Mitzvah Mania day is new
to Temple Israel, the congregation has long been
active in volunteer programs throughout the area.
Dr. Gad-Harf recalled a recent effort in which chil-
dren and adults helped out at a shelter for the
homeless.
"The adults were moved," she said, "but it was
really something to see the children understand
their responsibility to tikkun olam (repairing the
world)."
These experiences also give the community at
large a chance to meet, face-to-face, with Jews.

Volunteer Benji Auslander at a Temple Israel-sponsored
birthday party for children at a homeless shelter.

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