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t’s been a great five 
years for the Kosher 
Ribs team in the Inter-
Congregational Men’s Club 
Summer Softball League’s 
fall league.
The Kosher Ribs have 
played in the fall league’s 
playoff championship game 
five straight seasons and 
won three times, including a 

14-10 victory over the Jeters 
on Oct. 15 in this year’s title 
game.
It’s a particularly 
impressive stretch because 
the weekly fall league is set 
up to avoid dynasties. The 
six league teams are made 
up of players from different 
congregations, unlike the 
summer league, with the 

goal of competitive balance.
“Ideally, everyone goes 5-5 
(in the fall league’s regular 
season) and every game is 
a one-run game. Of course, 
that will never happen, but 
that’s the goal,” said Mitch 
Kline, a fall league organizer 
along with Matt Bassin and 
Victor Uzansky.
Kline was happy to report 

that the top three teams in 
the regular-season standings 
this fall were separated by 
just one game.
And the third-place 
Mensches, a bottom team 
last year, lost their first two 
regular-season games this 
year then won seven of eight 
heading into the playoffs.
But Marble Rye and The 
Sandlot, the fifth- and sixth-
place teams, respectively, 
each won just one regular-
season game this fall, “so we 
didn’t do a good job putting 
together those teams,” Kline 
said.
Kline is the player/
manager of Kosher Ribs. 
One of his players is 
Corey Slutsky, who has been 
on the team since 2017. 
Slutsky said there’s a reason 
why Kosher Ribs has done 
so well on the diamond the 
last five years, and it has 
little to do with softball.
“The core of our team has 
been together for years. We 
know each others’ kids, we 
go out to dinner, and we 
joke around on the bench,” 
Slutsky said. 
“When someone new joins 
our team, which happens 
every season, he quickly 

MITCH KLINE

SPORTS

Kosher Ribs wins another Inter-Congregational 
Men’s Club Summer Softball League fall league 
playoff championship.

Family Time in the Fall

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Meet the Kosher Ribs. Holding 
the team’s championship trophy 
are Corey Slutsky’s sons Avery, 9, 
and Ethan, 5.

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