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Blasting The Pins
Southpaw averaged 223 in B'nai
B'rith Bowling League.
Steve Stein
Special to The Jewish News
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strike machine broke records and won
championships at a dizzying pace.
"I'm competitive and I like to
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amazing," Fishman said. Fishman's
223.44 average was the highest in the
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson League's
40-year history. Besides setting the
record, Fishman was named the
league's Most Improved Bowler because
he averaged "just" 198.14 the previous
season.
The Oak Park High School grad also
was the league's match point champion
with a record 44 points, a particularly
impressive achievement because he
always went head-to-head against the
opposing team's anchor bowler.
Fishman rolled his first career
300 game Nov. 28, part of a 300-226-
265/811 series that is the highest in
league history. The Bloomfield Hills
resident also struck gold in several
national competitions, especially the
65th annual International B'nai B'rith
Bowling Association Tournament held
at Drakeshire Lanes in Farmington
Hills and Novi Bowl. He was a mem-
ber of the It's All Luck squad from
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson that fin-
ished second in the team standings.
He also won the tournaments Class
A (176 and higher average) singles
championship and he rolled the tour-
nament's top scratch game (280) and
series (737).
Fishman, 44, has some practi-
cal advice for bowlers who want to
improve their game. "Practice making
spares," he said. "Because I'm a left-
hander, I'm always working on making
the 7 pin." It's also important to be
flexible, Fishman said, because bowlers
need to make adjustments from week
to week and game to game to deal with
changing lane conditions.
Fishman bowled at Oak Park Lanes
when he was a youngster, but he lost
interest in the sport for several years.
He picked it up again thanks to the
urging of friend Bruce Weberman
and he hasn't missed a season since
1984 despite undergoing back surgery
in 1996 and 1998.
When he isn't bowling, Fishman is
selling used vehicles. He owns the Car
& Truck Connection in Waterford.
Jewish Jordan
It has been seven years since there was
a Jewish player in the NBA. There has
never been an Israeli player in the NBA.
Both droughts could end.
Center-forward Danny Schayes,
the last Jewish NBA player, retired in
1999 after an 18-year NBA career.
Schayes has passed the baton to
Jordan Farmar. The 6-foot-2 UCLA
point guard was selected 26th by the
Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of
last month's draft.
Farmar's mother, stepfather and sis-
ter are Jewish. Farmar, 19, was raised in
a Jewish home and had a bar mitzvah.
He started all 66 games in his two
seasons at UCLA, including the Bruins'
loss to Florida in last season's NCAA
championship contest..
Also, two Israelis were selected in
the second and final round of the NBA
draft. Lior Eliyahu, 20, was the 44th
choice over all with his draft rights
traded to the Houston Rockets.
Yotam Halperin, 22, was the
53rd selection, taken by the Seattle
SuperSonics. Eliyahu, a 6-9 forward, and
Halperin, a 6-5 guard, aren't yet consid-
ered NBA-caliber players, so they'll play
for Ivlaccabi Tel AViV next season.
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