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PLAY BALL!
In 1867, the
new game of
“base ball” was
sweeping the
nation
and evolving
from a simple
child’s game to
a gentleman’s
national
Lynne Konstantin pastime — and
Arts & Life Editor
the Detroit area
was host to the Historic Base Ball
World’s Base Ball
Tournament. See how it was done —
June 11-Aug. 21. Greenfield Village,
no cussing, no spitting — as Greenfield Dearborn. (800) 835-5237;
Village’s two teams, the National Base
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Ball Club (based on an 1867 Parma,
Mich., club) and the necktie-wearing
NEXT GEN
Lah-De-Dahs (based on a club that
Few musicians can claim what A.J.
played in Waterford in the 1880s) plus
Croce can: Each of his first five album
other visiting teams take to the field
releases hit the charts in a different
each week. It all leads up to a World
genre (jazz, Americana, blues, AAA,
Tournament of Historic Base Ball,
college and Top 40). Croce was only 2
replete with live 19th-century music.
when his dad, 1970s icon Jim Croce,
Just as in the original 1867 World’s
died in a plane crash; when he was 4,
Tournament, a $300 cash prize will be
he was blinded by a brain tumor —
awarded to the champion club, while
gradually regaining partial sight in one
the club with the fewest wins will
eye, he learned to play piano by ear
receive a sack of peanuts. Free with
and got his first gig at age 12, playing
Village admission. Games are played
at the bar mitzvah of a Hebrew school
1:30 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday
friend. See him perform songs from his
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Celebrity Jews
Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
AT THE MOVIES
Opening June 10: Now You See Me
(2013), a thriller about four magicians
who pull off a daring heist, was a sur-
prise box office hit. Now comes the
sequel, Now You See Me 2. Returning
from the original are Jesse Eisenberg,
32, and Dave Franco, 30 (both as magi-
cians). New Jews in See Me 2 include
Lizzy Caplan, 33, and Daniel Radcliffe,
26. Here’s the basic plot: One year after
outwitting the FBI and winning the pub-
lic’s adulation with their mind-bending
spectacles, the Four Horsemen (the
magicians) resurface only to find them-
selves face to face with a new enemy
who enlists them to pull off their most
dangerous heist yet. Footnote: Isla
Fisher, 40, who was a co-star magician
in the original, couldn’t make the sequel
because she was quite pregnant when
filming began in late 2014. In March,
2015, she and hubbie, Sacha Baron-
Cohen, 44, had Moses, their third child
and first son.
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Franco
TV NEWS
HBO just confirmed that it will air a new
series starring Sarah Jessica Parker,
51, next fall. Parker will play Frances, a
woman who is re-assessing her life and
marriage. Thomas Hayden Church co-
stars, with Talia Balsam, 57, in a big sup-
porting role. Parker, of course, starred in
HBO’s Sex and the City, which premiered in
1998, and was HBO’s first big hit original
series. My gut says that Parker’s new series
is thematically familiar ground and unless
the writing is really first-rate, this may be
an HBO “second act” that fails. The first Sex
and the City movie (2008) was a hit, but
the second (2010) was awful and Parker
hasn’t had a hit since City ended in 2004.