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Hank Greenberg:
Hometown Hero

All-Star Fever

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Game brings interactive baseball
theme park to Detroit.

SUZANNE CHESSLER

Special to the Jewish News

B

aseball great Hank Greenberg
represented more than athletic
prowess in 1930s Detroit. As
a Tigers star, the late Greenberg stood
for the possibility of breaking through
anti-Semitic barriers and holding a
place in history.
That place will be commemorated
July 8-12 as the John Hancock All-
Star FanFest, an interactive baseball
theme park, makes its first stop in
Detroit as part of the 2005 Major
League Baseball All-Star Week. The
family event, held at the Cobo
Conference-Exhibition Center,
includes baseball activities and
exhibits.
Greenberg will be remembered with
a plaque in Hometown Heroes, a sec-
tion honoring Tiger legends.
"Hank Greenberg is a great role
model and hero for American Jews,"
says filmmaker Aviva Kempner, a for-
mer Detroiter who recognized the
player's achievements in her documen-
tary The Life and Times of Hank
Greenberg." Greenberg's stand on Yom
Kippur (going to synagogue instead of
playing Major League baseball) I con-
sider to be a real pinnacle moment in
the practice of Judaism in America."

Give yourself a Metro image

FanFest offers hundreds of experi-
ences and stories, from the
CyberBallpark to the Collector's
Showcase. Favorite players will be on
hand to provide tips and autographs.
Some 40 attractions include the
Diamond, which reveals strategy
secrets through seminars and hands-on
clinics; Video Batting Cages, which
can offer participants chances to slug
away at actual baseballs pitched by
life-sized images of Major League
hurlers; the Bullpen, which lets players
test their skills in pitching cages;
National Baseball Hall of Fame &
Museum, which features a collection
of artifacts; and FanFest Baseball
Cards, which will provide each fan
with the opportunity to flip on a hat,
button up a jersey and grab a bat for
the fan's ultimate portrait on a baseball
card that looks like the real thing. ❑

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The John Hancock All-Star
FanFest runs July 8-12 at the
Cobo Conference-Exhibition
Center in downtown Detroit.
Hours are 9 a.m. 8 p.m. Friday-
Monday and 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
Tuesday. $161$11 seniors, mili-
tary personnel and children 3-12.
(313) 471-BALL (2255).

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