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erguson Jenkins, Dick Enberg
and Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg
will be honored June 12 at the
Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation’s
27th annual Hank Greenberg Mem-
orial Golf Invitational at Franklin Hills
Country Club in Farmington Hills.
Jenkins, 74, a Hall of Fame pitcher
born in Chatham, Ont., will receive
the Hank Greenberg Memorial
Lifetime Achievement Award.
He won 284 games during
his Major League career,
which spanned from
1965-1983, and was the
Cy Young Award winner
in 1971 while he was
with the Chicago Cubs.
Enberg, 82, who was
born in Mount Clemens and
graduated from Central Michigan
University, will receive the Dick
Schaap Memorial Award for Media
Excellence.
The retired sportscaster did radio
and television play-by-play for nation-
al networks and teams over a 60-year
career. He retired last year after serv-
ing as the San Diego Padres play-by-
play broadcaster from 2010-2016.
Enberg was a guest play-by-play
man for the Detroit Tigers’ game May
21 against the Tampa Bay Rays at
Comerica Park.
He was given the opportunity to
work at a Tigers game because he was
retiring at the end of the season and
the Tigers were his boyhood team.
Goldberg, founder and director of
the Kids Kicking Cancer organiza-
tion, will receive the Barry Bremen
Memorial Inspiration Award.
The rabbi’s nonprofit organiza-
tion, founded in 1999, helps children
cope with the pain of cancer through
martial arts and spiritual training.
Goldberg lost his first child to leuke-
mia at age 2.
Goldberg has received national
acclaim for his organization. He was
featured in People Magazine’s “Heroes
Among Us” in 2012, appeared on
ABC’s Good Morning America in 2013
and was a top 10 finalist in the CNN
Heroes competition in 2014.
He holds a first-degree black belt
in the Korean art of choi kwang do
and is a clinical assistant professor of
pediatrics at Wayne State University
in Detroit.
Goldberg’s organization is active
in hospitals in Michigan, California,
Florida, New York, Ontario, Israel

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and Italy.
ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap will be the
master of ceremonies at the invita-
tional’s dinner program.
Event proceeds will benefit the
Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Cancer
Treatment Center in Farmington Hills
and Kids Kicking Cancer.
To make reservations or become a
sponsor, contact foundation Executive
Director David Blatt at (248) 592-
9323 or go to michiganjewish-
sports.org.
The foundation’s annual
raffle at the invitational
for a trip for two to the
Masters golf tournament
in Augusta, Ga., has a new
twist.
“One of the foundation’s
board members has made a dona-
tion so the prize for the 2018 Masters
will include two round-trip airplane
tickets with a value up to $500,”
said foundation spokeswoman Sari
Cicurel.
Raffle tickets are $100 each and can
be purchased by calling Blatt or going
to the foundation’s website.
A maximum of 200 tickets will be
sold. The prize value is estimated at
$5,000. The winner must be at least 21,
but does not need to be present when
the raffle drawing is held.

LOTS OF SPORTS TALK
One of the most popular portions of
the Hank Greenberg Invitational is the
sports panel discussion at the dinner.
Seizing on that popularity, the
Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation is
hosting “Beyond the Game: A Night of
Sports Talk” at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, April
26, at Tam- O-Shanter Country Club in
West Bloomfield.
The fundraiser for the Dr. Steve
and Evelyn Rosen Stars of Tomorrow
Scholarship program features panel-
ists Detroit Pistons and Michigan
State University football broadcaster
George Blaha, Detroit Lions and
University of Michigan football broad-
caster Jim Brandstatter, Detroit Red
Wings broadcaster Ken Daniels and
Arn Tellem, vice chairman of Palace
Sports & Entertainment.
Mike Stone of 97.1 The Ticket will
be the program emcee.
Tickets are $75 for dinner and the
“Sports Talk” and sponsorships are
available. Contact the foundation. •

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