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Then his secretary Levine, 60, of Franklin, it was watch- came in saying he had a phone call. ing his son, Jordan, 23, of Berkley, He waved at her that he would take it playing ball again "just like it was later and told me to keep talking. when he was back in Little League." That's when I knew we really had "The players are wonderful," says something. Lewis. "They understand how these "He gave us permission to use the guys feel and it's like they're letting uniforms and cleared the way for them in on this wonderful, secret using Henley Field, the old spring brotherhood. Willie Horton barbe- training ballpark. cues at every session. Mickey Lolich "J.P. McCarthy gave us a slot on his gives pitching instruction. They tell old 'Focus' show on WJR Radio. It stories from when they were playing. was supposed to be for just a few It's a magical thing." minutes, but he ended up keeping us Several teams run similar camps. on for 45. By the time we got off the The Tigers were not the first. But air we had 100 phone calls. Harvey they are far and away the most suc- Saperstein, who has been at every one cessful. of our camps, told me he was so More than 200 "campers" already excited he had to pull off the road to have signed up for the 2006 sessions, make the call. This was before cell at $3,295 a pop. Lewis is also in phones, of course." charge of the All-Star Game fantasy Lewis went to Florida the first time camp, run by Major League Baseball, with 82 campers, and the program next Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at has grown from there. For the last Comerica Park. eight years, he has been employed by "It started almost as a spur of the the ball club to run the camps. moment thing," he says. "My friend, "Women, kids, older guys who Barry Grant, saw an article about the could barely walk," he says, "they all Chicago Cubs running a fantasy come to our camp and they all take camp in 1983 and wondered why I away something great." couldn't do something like that. For painting contractor Lenny "I was a baseball crazy kid. I'd Malach of West Bloomfield, it was grown up on stories about Hank the desire to play ball again on a reg- Greenberg, although my dad was a ular basis. "I got into a seniors league Cleveland fan because Al Rosen after my first camp and I'm still play- played there. When Jim Bunning ing in it after my fourth camp," he pitched his no-hitter against Boston says. in 1957, and got Ted Williams for the Even Jordan Levine, just out of the last out, we watched it together and University of Michigan, found out we both were crying." "how much I missed the game and Lewis grew up at Temple Beth El. starting going back to batting cages to He and his wife, Ellen, now are mem- get the feel of it again." bers of Temple Israel. "It's like an alumni group," says "Jim Price and I were friends from Lewis. "We have an awards banquet when we both worked at Mich Con," every year, a fantasy camp hall of he says. "So I told him that, if he fame. 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