 SEPTEMBER 26 • 2019 | 75

Howard Weingarten had a passion for 
baseball and specifically, the Detroit 
Tigers.
The West Bloomfield resident died in a 
car accident in late 2018 at age 65.
To honor him, his longtime significant 
other Deby Lebow created the Howard 
Weingarten Memorial Baseball Outing. 
The outing was held Aug. 31 at The 
Corner Ballpark, former site of Tiger 
Stadium.
Proceeds from the fundraiser, which 
included a game on the Willie 
Horton 
Field of Dreams and dinner, will benefit 
Detroit PAL’
s Diamond Sports Program.
The program provides baseball, softball, T-ball and coach-pitch 
opportunities for boys and girls and includes the Tiny Tigers program 
and an RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) team. The Corner 
Ballpark is Detroit PAL’
s first permanent home.
For more information on the outing, which will be an annual event, 
contact Lebow at (248) 505-0199.

Jackie Kallen

Heroes:
• Hank Aguirre: Three-time 
All-Star pitcher for the Tigers.
• Daedra Charles-Furlow: 
Detroit PAL alumna, member 
of the 1992 U.S. women’
s 
Olympic basketball team and 
Women’
s Basketball Hall of 
Fame inductee.
• Detroit Demolition: 
Championship women’
s 
full-contact football team.
• Anne Doyle: One of the 
first female TV sports broad-
casters in the U.S.
• Brenda Gatlin: Educator 
and award-winning girls 
and boys basketball coach in 
Detroit Public Schools.
• Willie Horton: Ex-Tigers 
great.
• Jackie Kallen: Barrier-
breaking female journalist 
and boxing manager who was 
the inspiration for the 2004 
movie Against the Ropes, star-
ing Meg Ryan.
• Will Robinson: The first 
African-American coach for a 
Michigan high school basket-
ball team and NCAA Division 
I basketball team, and the first 
African-American NBA scout.
• Diane Madsen and Jay 
Roberts-Eveland: Founders 
of Communities for Equity, 

which leveled the playing field 
for Michigan girls high school 
sports teams.
• Norman “Turkey” 
Stearnes: Negro League star 
and Baseball Hall of Fame 
inductee.
• Ron Thompson: 
Legendary Detroit St. Martin 
de Porres High School foot-
ball and baseball coach and 
leader in the desegregation of 
the Detroit Amateur Baseball 
Federation.
Kallen said tears of joy 
flowed when she learned she 
would be a part of the Walk 
of Heroes.
“It’
s incredible that a 
Jewish girl from 
Detroit would 
be included in 
this exhibit, espe-
cially with Hank 
Greenberg,” she 
said. “What a 
legacy for my 
two sons and five grandchil-
dren.”
Kallen said being on the 
Walk of Heroes also is a trib-
ute to her late par 
ents, Phil 
and Marge Kaplan.
“They encouraged me to be 
adventurous, to do things that 
girls didn’
t do,” she said. 

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