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fter eight years of dealing
with crowded fairways at
Tam O'Shanter Country
Club, organizers of a local
charity golf outing have finally suc-
cumbed to the inevitable: expansion.
"We gave in to the pressure to
expand to a second course," said Gary
Sallen, who along with Dan Passman,
co-chairs the June 14 Hank
Greenberg Memorial Golf and Tennis
Invitational,-put on by the Michigan
Jewish Sports Foundation.
For the last couple of years we had
to turn people away," said Sallen, "and
this year sold out before the invita-
tions went out."
Said Foundation Executive
Director Steve Simons: "We knew we
would make too many people unhap-
py" if the event facilities didn't
expand. "I'm not surprised by how
quick it sold out," he added. "It's con-
sidered one of the great national golf
outings."
Franklin Hills Country Club in
Franklin will handle the 80-golfer
overflow from West Bloomfield's Tam
O'Shanter, which will continue to be
the primary site accommodating 180
golfers and hosting the post-golf din-
ner.
Legendary sports journalist Dick
Schaap is again the honorary co-chair,
a role he has filled for eight years.
"Hank was a friend and my hero as
a child," Schaap said. Growing up
Jewish, Schaap looked up to
Greenberg, basketball Hall-of-Famer
Dolph Schayes and football Hall-of-
Famer Sid Luckman.
Foi Schaap, "it was important (to
have a Jewish role model), although
I'm not sure if he was a role model as
opposed to genuine hero."
Schaap and Schayes lead the
impressive list of athletic all-stars that
are being touted as attending, includ-
ing baseball Hall-of-Fame outfielders
Al Kaline and Ted Williams - and foot-
ball Hall-of-Famers Joe Nameth and
Joe Schmidt. Some of the other local
athletes that are slated to show are:
Bill Laimbeer, Vinnie Johnson, Aaron
Krickstein, Joe Dumars, Milt Wilcox,
Dan Petry and Dave Rozema.
Krickstein, formerly a top-10 ten-
nis player, and Dumars, the recently
retired Detroit Piston great, will
square off in an exhibition tennis
match at 5 p.m. at Tam O'Shanter.
"We've always had a number of
great (professional) athletes and this is
becoming a natural event for many to
attend," said Sallen. These athletes
"aren't paid a dime" to show up.
Schaap said, "Some come because
someone knows someone and a bunch
are local. But the main thing is Hank:
His is a magical name in Detroit and
the Jewish community across the
country. "Williams and Nameth are a
draw, but the big one is still Hank."
Sallen isn't short on praise for
Schaap's commitment to the event.
"He's unselfishly given his time and
expertise to the event," Sallen said.
"(Dick) felt a special closeness to
Hank because of his Judaism."
Money raised from the event will
go to benefit the Hank Greenberg
Oncology Fund for cancer research,
the disease that ended Greenberg's life
in 1986 at age 75. According to
Simons, over $250,000 has been
raised. Last year's event raised a record
$92,000, more than doubling the
$40,000 from 1997.
The combination of Schaap's look-
ing up to Greenberg and his friend-
ship with him is what brings him here
each year.
"As a kid you may have inflated
opinions of some people, but Hank was
just a super guy," Schaap said. "He was
very tolerant, too, allowing me to play
tennis with him. We played against
Johnny Carson and his lawyer. We lost,
but it wasn't his fault." F1
Local Tennis
Players Excel
North Farmington completed its best-
ever boys tennis season with a second-
place finish at last weekend's Division
II state championship. North