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heir fathers instilled in them a
lifelong love of baseball. Both
our writers for the Jewish
News'Jewish-flavored look at Major
League Baseball and its All-Star Game
next week say their fathers were the
catalyst.
"My Dad thought it was the only
game worth considering," said George
Cantor of West Bloomfield, a regular
columnist for the Detroit Jewish News
and a former baseball beat reporter for
the Detroit Free Press.
After his father died, Cantor discov-
ered a box his dad had saved contain-
ing all the box scores from the Detroit
Tigers' games from the 1934 and 1935
seasons.
Cantor had been working as a fea-
ture writer for the Free Press city desk
for three years when the baseball-writ-
ing job opened up. Joe Falls was mov-
ing up from beat reporter to sports
columnist "and everybody thought
Brent Musburger was coming over
from Chicago to take the job."
But just 10 days prior to the open-
ing of spring training in February
1966, Musberger left the Chicago
American to go into sports broadcast-
ing. And with Managing Editor Neal
Shine's recommendation, Cantor got
the Free Press job.
He kept it for four years, including
the Tigers' World Series championship
season of 1968. But after the 1969 sea-
son, "I
thought I'd
had enough"
and Cantor
returned to
the city desk.
But he has
always
retained his
love of base-
ball. In the
1990s, after he
moved to the
George Cantor
Detroit News,
Cantor was
briefly a sports
columnist. He also did travel writing
there and left the News last year after
being a member of its editorial board.
Cantor has authored a number of
books, including Baseball's Last Real
Champions about the 1968 Tigers, and
the 2004 release Wire To Wire
(Triumph Publishing, Chicago) about
the 1984 Tigers, which just won an
award from the State Library of
Michigan. "I'm absolutely still a Tigers
fan," Cantor said.
His book in 2000, Courtney's Legacy:
A Father's
Journey, dis-
cussed the
death of his
youngest
daughter and
its aftermath.
Cantor and
his wife are
members of
Temple Israel
and have a
married
daughter.
Irwin Cohen
Writer/his-
torian Irwin
Cohen of Oak
Park also credits his dad for his base-
ball interest. "My father was always
interested in baseball, and I started fol-
lowing the Tigers in 1950," when he
was 8, said Cohen. "I always heard
about Hank Greenberg in my house."
Cohen had been working in the
Wayne County Treasurer's Office for
13 years in 1975 when he heard a triv-
ia mistake on Vince Doyle's call-in
show on WWJ Radio. He called Doyle
off the air to point out the mistake,
and was invited on the show the fol-
lowing week to introduce former Tiger
outfielder Hoot Evers.
He also met major league pitchers
Denny McLain and Dick Radatz, and
wound up working part-time for their
All-Sports TV Guide and other national
baseball publications.
Cohen "always had a baseball
library" and would spend many a
lunch hour in Detroit's Downtown
Library, reading baseball news in the
out-of-town newspapers. He gleaned a
lot of tidbits for Joe Falls' column from
his daily reading and, when he retired
after 20 years from the Treasurer's
Office, the Tigers found a front office
job for him.
No longer with the Tigers' organiza-
tion, Cohen has written several histo-
ries about Jewish Detroit and contin-
ues his love of baseball. A member of
Young Israel of Oak Park, Cohen and
his wife have a married daughter and
six grandchildren.
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