four questions

Molly Light Betensley chats with Platinum.

For as long as she can remember, MOLLY LIGHT
BETENSLEY has been a baseball fan. Now, as

director of broadcasting for the Detroit Tigers,

the 32-year-old from Birmingham has one of the

best seats in the house for every game. Her job

is to help promote Tiger baseball. "I love knowing

I have a small part in bringing Tiger games to 8

million eyes and ears watching or listening every

WILIT BOOK, CD OR OTHER
MEDIA DO YOU LONG TO
SI-IARE?

sity and became the premier power hitter
of his generation and one of the game's
best players of all time.

My husband and I are avid independent
film watchers and supporters. Audrey
Tautou is my favorite actress; I love all of
her French movies. We hope some day to
make it to the Cannes Film Festival.

WHAT IMPORTANT LIFE
LESSONS I-IAVE YOU RECENTLY
LEARNTT)?

night," she said. Betensley travels with the team

and serves as a liaison for Tiger broadcast part-

IF YOU COULD HAVE BRUNCH
WITH ONE BIBLICAL OR
HISTORICAL, JEWISH FIGURE,
WHO WOULD IT BE?

ners including ESPN, FOX and the MLB Network.

She oversees all aspects of Tiger radio and TV

game broadcasts and national and international
broadcasts from Comerica Park. She's held her

current position for two years but has been with

the hometown team for the last decade. It was quite amazing to oversee the 2006 World

Series broadcast to 224 countries in 13 different languages," she said.

Betensley is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Syracuse University's Newhouse

Graduate School of Public Communications. She recently "hit one out of the park" at the

Townsend Hotel in Birmingham when she married her sweetheart, Dr. Alan Betensley, on

Valentine's Day. Legendary Tiger broadcaster Ernie Harwell gave the toast at the wedding. The

couple traveled to the Tigers' spring training camp in Lakeland, Fla., the very next day, but

they're planning a honeymoon to Tokyo and Maui after baseball season. Here, we ask Molly
Light Betensley our version of the Four Questions.

— Robin Schwartz

Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg.
Greenberg was the first Jewish superstar
in American professional sports. He gar-
nered national attention in 1934 when he
refused to play baseball on Yom Kippur
even though the Tigers were in the mid-
dle of a pennant race. The anti-Semitism
Greenberg endured ranged from players
staring at him because they had never
seen a Jew to coarse racial epithets hurled
at him. He would be an amazing person
to meet to hear how he overcame adver-

My maternal grandparents survived the
Armenian genocide; and my father's fam-
ily is Jewish, forever remembering the
Holocaust. I was taught by my family
to never hate or be prejudiced, to always
respect and accept others and, most of
all, to appreciate life. I take this with me
every day.

NVHAT WOULD PEOPLE BE
SURPRISED '10 KNOW ABOUT

YOU?
I am a country girl — my favorite singer

is Toby Keith. I live on candy. My hus-
band wanted to take me to the Lark in
West Bloomfield for my birthday, but I
wanted Baja Fresh instead. fl

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