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A Few
Goode Men

Scott Warheit
AppleTree Staff Writer

1 As Sack explains, it wasn't easy
making the elite team.
1 "I went to the Jewish Community
is baseball season. The Detroit
Center and I tried out for the
Four remarkable men who gave their lives in
, I Tigers are back in the swing of I team. They cut many players and
things and challenging the
looked at us again and then cut •
the war.
1 Cleveland Indians for the Ameri-
again. I was real happy and
FYI: Four great men ...
Elizabeth Applebaum
can League Central lead.
thankful that I made it."
AppleTree Editor
Chances are you've never heard of
This month, I talk to a state-
Sack hopes to be playing third
I Rabbi Alexander D. Goode, .but lis-
champion baseball player who
base during the. games, while he
FYI: In a pickle ...
ten to his story and you will never
keeps busy all summer long with
You've tasted them, yourv. e experi-
enjoys playing second base on
forget him.
I
America's
favorite pastime. Mike
I the North Farmington JV team.
enced the aftertaste of them, ond
Rabbi Goode was one -of four
I Sack, 14, of Farmington Hills, is a
Sack has one especially memo-
now you want to make them! As
religious leaders, including Father
I freshman who is a third-baseman
rable moment from his seven-year
readers of FYI's predecessor, the
John Washington and pastors
I on the Junior Varsity Baseball Club 1- career.
brilliant Tell Me Why, already
I George Fox and Clark Poling, who I of North Farmington
"When i was 10,
know, what makes a "kosher" pick-
served as chaplains aboard the
High
School.
the team I was on
le in the industry has nothing to do
I U.S.S. Dorchester during World
"I was 7 years old
won
the state cham-
with rabbinic supervision and every-
"I was
War II. According to author Doug
I
when
I
started
play-
pionship. It was the
thing to do with garlic. If you would
Storer, in Amazing But True, the four ' ing," says Sack, who
7 years old
NFWB Tournament
like to try making your pickles,
1 men had never met, but they
I
was
1
year
old
when
Team and we had a
here's a fun recipe that will leave
when
became friends while working on
1 the Tigers won the
lot of great talent.
friends green with envy that they
the ship. A few weeks after setting
World
Series
in
I
started
Winning that title
didn't make them themselves!
sail in January 1943, the Dorch-
1984. "I played in
meant a lot to me
playing,"
i ester was struck by an enemy sub.
I
the
pinto
league
for
and everyone else
Kosher Pickles
The ship began to sink, and the
I NFWB (North Farm-
says
Sack
on the team."
1/8 tsp. powdered alum
decks were afire. The rabbi, the
I
.ington-West-Bloom-
What does Sack
2 cloves garlic, or more to taste
priest and the ministers risked their
field)
baseball.
I
think
about our very
1 grape leaf
I own lives to save the soldiers, help-
always
liked
it
because
I
saw
so
I own Detroit Tigers? The team
Fresh dill, to taste
! ing them to safety in life rafts; they
I
much
on
TV."
recently moved into the Central
1 cup pickling salt
I also offered comfort to those who
Sack
has
been
playing
the
I
Division, which should give them
1 quart cider vinegar
I were dying. When it seemed they
game
he
loves
ever
since.
While
a
chance to contend. Sack con-
3 quarts water
could do no more, the four put on
I
others
have
fallen
out
of
love
with
gratulates Buddy Bell, Randy Smith
Pickling cucumbers
I their life jackets, but they quickly
I the game, Sack still is involved.
and the players on their effort. "I
I discovered there were others who
"Now,
I'm
on
the
JVNF
baseball
think they are moving up for sure..
Let cucumbers sit overnight in cool
1 had none. And so Rabbi Goode,
team."
says
Sack,
who
also
plays
They
aren't going to win the
water. Bring water, vinegar and salt
Father Washington, the Rev. Fox
for South Farmington Travel in the
World Serie's this year, but they
to a boil.
1 and the Rev. Poling all took off their 1 summer. And that's still not all.
are heading in the right direction
Place cucumbers in hot jars that
life vests and gave them away.
I
"This
August
I'm
going
to
be
play-
and will be a top team in a few
have been sterilized. Add alum,
The last anyone ever saw of the
ing
in
the
Maccabi
games.
I
real-
years.
They have a lot of young
garlic, grape leaf and other spices.
brave men they were standing on
:
ly
look
forward
to
it
because
it's
talent that will develop into super-
Fill with boiling brine, then seal.
the last bit of the deck, their arms
I
for
the
Jewish
athletes
all
around
:
stars."
Pickles will be ready in about two
linked, as the ship went down to
I the world. It's going to be a real
Sack, at 14 years old already a
weeks. Keep refrigerated.
sea. El
honor playing with all of these
state champion, has a great
great athletes."
career going for him.
I want to wish him and his teams
Scott Warheit, who attends
the best of luck in the future. With
I North Farmington High School, is a
the young start that Sack had and
sports fanatic who also has a
the talent he possesses, he could
unique collection of sports memora-
go very far. 0
bilia.

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