That you can insure your gift
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weather so I knew there'd be a small
o vd and that i could sit up in a
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section all by myself and nobody
would harass me."
At 16, his preparation led to an
internship with Rochester, where he
read scores during the team's pre-game
and post-game radio shows.
After attending Northwestern
University, where he majored in jour-
nalism, Lewin returned to Rochester
the baseball Red Wings' radio play-
by-play announcer. He held that job
through 1994, then moved to
Baltimore to become sports director of
radio station NXIBAL. He filled in as a
broadcaster for the Orioles, doing 10-
20 games per year.
Continuing his rapid rise, Lewin
joined the Fox Sports Network in
1.996 as a baseball announcer, doing
one of their weekly games. In 1997,
he become a play-by-play man for the
Chicago Cubs. That job wasn't a corn-
fortable fit because long-time Cubs
announcer Harry Carey wanted his
son, Chip, to eventually move up to
the top spot. So when Fox Sports Net
Detroit called Lewin in 1998, offering
_ .him the Tigers job, he grabbed it.
- "I thought that was perfect," Lewin
recalled. When he was told that
Gibson would share the booth as color
commentator, Lewin said, "that was
the icing on the cake."
Lewin told Gibson he was one. of
his childhood heroes when. it became
apparent that we were going to get
along. Then I felt comfortable enough
t0 admit ro him that I used to have
his poster up in my den. "
In addition ro his baseball work,
Lewin broadcasts local college hockey
games as well as some pro football
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games for the Fox Sports Net.
Lewin, 30, not only has achieved
his long-time career goal, he's over-
- achieved it
. "In a way, I kind of feel like I've.
overshot the mark," he explained. "All
I really ever aspired to do. was to be.
Ernie Harwell's No. 2 guy."
Being Jewish, Lewin says, doesn't
affect his career. "I'm proud of who
I am and what my heritage is, but I
think in baseball, in particular, I'm
always glad when the subject just
never comes up,' he said. "I'm one
of those people that feels that base-
ball is a great equalizer. Especially in
the minor leagues, you'd see guys
from the rural South getting togeth-
er with some Latino players from
Harlem or Manhattan. By the end of
the year, you're all the same."
Lewin tceels the Tigers "will com-

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an evening with

Avraham
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avraham, a former detroiter,
is a student of the kabbala and an artist
in the holy city of tzefat

* what is the hidden meaning of the four letter name of God?
* what is reincarnation and the universal soul?
* aligning the signs of the zodiac with the 12 tribes of Israel
* how the ineffable name is the dna of the universe

what is kabbala?

Young Israel of Southfield • 27705 Lahser Road • Thursday, June 3rd • 7:30 p.m. • $10.00

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