1 To Life! SPORTS Baseball Trivia Holocaust Center docent once played in the big leagues. Hollywood. Gable was at the top of his game at the age of 57 and was starring in two movies that day. playing around the major and minor league circuit..Besides Gable, Run Silent, Run Deep featured Burt • Lancaster and Teacher's Pet co-starred Doris Day. On Foreman's great day, music maker Irving Berlin celebrated his 70th birthday. Former Detroit Tigers Hall of Fame second baseman and executive Charlie Richard Foreman as a shortstop for a Philadelphia Gehringer turned 55. Phillies minor league team in 1958. Entertainer Red Skelton was mourning the loss of his 10-year-old son to leu- kemia. CBS announced Milton Berle would Irwin Cohen pinch hit for Skelton until he was ready to Special to the Jewish News • return to his.television show. Foreman sowed his baseball talent while playing in several youth leagues, for here are many accomplished Redford High School and on numerous and interesting docents at the Detroit sandlot teams. The native Detroiter Holocaust Memorial Center attended and played baseball at Olivet in Farmington Hills. But only Richard Foreman can say that he hit two homeruns College in 1957 at the age of 19 and caught the eye of atop Phillies scout. Signed to with the bases loaded in the same profes- a professional contract and assigned to sional baseball game. Class C Salt Lake City, the young shortstop Foreman's feat came on May 11, earned a promotion to Highpoint, N.C., 1958, while playing for Brunswick, a in the Class B Carolina Le- ague later in the Philadelphia Phillies affiliate in the season. Georgia-Florida League. His two grand In 1958, Foreman wore the uniform slams in one game were good enough to of the Brunswick Phillies before being receive national attention in the Sporting assigned to Olean, another Phillies farm News. club in•the NY-Penn League where he On the day Foreman was king of the played third base. After totaling nine diamond , Clark Gable was still king of Yoga And You The Jewish Meditation with Yoga Asana Practice is an opportunity to study Torah through a meditative yoga asana (pos- , tore) practice. The meditation, in .the meeting rooms at Congregation Beth Shalom, will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 6. Participants are advised to wear comfortable clothes that allow them to sit or lie on the floor as well as enter the sanctuary to join in 36 April 20 • 2006 the concluding Shabbat prayers with the Oak Park congregation. This program has been made possible by a grant from the Muriel & George .. Tarnoff Special. Needs Fund. For infor- mation, call the synagogue office, (248) 547-7970. Arthritis Help An arthritis self-help course will be offered at Adat Shalom Synagogue homeruns, 74 runs batted in and compil- ing a .250 batting average for 1958, he returned to Olivet College. Foreman decided to play college football before preparing for the next professional baseball season. It would be a career-end- ing decision. A knee injury resulted in the loss of baseball mobility. In 1959, Foreman watched with -inter- est as the Philadelphia Phillies brought up a minor league infielder by the name of George Anderson — the future Sparky. Foreman had to be content with might have been 'and the memories of play- ing in the same league as several future Major Leaguers, including Dick McAuliffe and Don Wert, who played for Detroit. He watched as Earl Weaver, one of the rival managers in his league, rose to the Majors and Hall of Fame status. Foreman had baseball in his DNA. • His grandfather, Gus "Happy" Foreman, dreidled around the minor leagues. Happy pitched for too many teams irr too many towns for too many years. However, he appeared in three Major League games for the 1924 Chicago White Sox and three more two years later for the Boston Red Sox. Instead of baseball, Richard hit the books, got his degree and began a 32-year career with Michigan public schools. In 1996, two years before his retirement, Foreman began volunteering as a guide at the Holocaust Memorial Center. Married to his Olivet College sweet- heart, Pat, for more than 42 years, Richard wants friends to call him "Hap," as a remembrance to his grandfather's baseball accomplishments. Pat and Hap are mem- bers of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield and enjoy learning about Judaism, wheth- Mondays, May 1, 8, 15, 22 and June 5 and 12. The sessions will run from 10 a.m. to noon. Adat Shalom member Doreen Lichtman and Sandra L. Falk-Michaels will teach the program, which also offers individuals the chance to meet others with the same challenges. Both leaders are trained instructors with the Arthritis Foundation. The pro- gram is co-sponsored. by the foundation, Pat and Richard Foreman have been married more than 42 years. er at the temple's adult education classes or at Ohr Somayach lunch and learn pro- grams. Pat volunteers' at the West Bloomfield JCC, while Hap gives well-researched tours at the Holocaust Memorial Center. "Every time, I take a group through the HMC:' Foreman related, "I feel I speak for the Six Million whose voices can no longer be heard." Not one to toot his own horn, Hap can use a voice on his behalf for enshrinement in the Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. 0 Irwin Cohen of Oak Park published the national Baseball Bulletin from 1975-980 and was a front office associate of the Detroit Tigers for nine years, earning a World Series ring in 1984. He has authored several books on Detroit's Jewish community. the Jewish Fund and the L'Chaim Project Arthritis Foundation. Participants will learn basic arthritis information, strategies for decreasing pain, how to relax and deal with stress, the proper use of exercise, how to talk to your doctor, and much more. For information, call Nancy Wilhelm, (248)- 851-5100, or e-mail nwilhelm@ adatshaloni..org.