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ndy Rosenfeld says 
his team has the most 
fun of any team in the 
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson 
B’nai B’rith Bowling League.
That proclamation may be 
up for debate among the weekly 
league’s 23 other teams. 
But no one can debate that 
Rosenfeld’s team, named Uncle 
Miltie in honor the late Jewish 
actor and comedian Milton 
Berle, couldn’t be stopped this 
season and won the league 
championship.
Uncle Miltie won the first- and 
second-half titles in the Pete 
Weber Division, earning a bye 
in the quarterfinal round and 
a berth in the Final Four in the 
eight-team league playoffs.
Mark It Zero offered zero 
resistance to Uncle Miltie in the 
playoff semifinals. Uncle Miltie 
won 19-5.
The 600 Club, which won the 
first- and second-half titles in the 
Earl Anthony Division and was 
the defending league champion, 
faced Uncle Miltie in the playoff 
championship match on April 15 
at Country Lanes in Farmington 
Hills, the league’s home base.
After being tied 7-7 after two 
games, Uncle Miltie broke away 
from the 600 Club in the third 
game and won 16-8.
So, how did Uncle Miltie do 
so well in the grind of a sev-
en-month league regular season 
and playoffs in arguably the best 
B’nai B’rith bowling league in the 
country?
“We joke around and laugh a 
lot. That keeps us calm in tense 
situations,
” Rosenfeld said. “We 

usually finish our match last each 
week because we’re having so 
much fun. 
“Winning the league cham-
pionship meant so much to us 
because this is a great league. It 
seemed like we were celebrating 
for days and days after the play-
off championship match.
“We talked about renting a 
convertible and having a parade 
in front of (league secretary) 
Gary Klinger’s house. No, I don’t 
think we’ll do that,
” Rosenfeld 
said with a laugh.
The four men on the Uncle 
Miltie team have been team-
mates since 2018. They had 
never made the league playoffs 
until last season, when they lost 
in the quarterfinals.
They live in different cities 
and have widely different occu-
pations.
Eric Foreman, who averaged 
140 this season, lives in West 
Bloomfield and is a podiatrist.

Andy Cohen (156) lives in 
Farmington Hills and travels 
around the world for his job for 
IBM. 
Kevin Elbinger (202) lives in 
Bloomfield Hills and is a finan-
cial planner.
Rosenfeld (168) lives in Novi. 
He’s been on TV newscasts a few 
times lately.
He’s the longtime general 
manager of Marvin’s Marvelous 
Mechanical Museum, the 
popular, iconic and eclectic 
Farmington Hills fun spot 
that has vintage coin-operated 
machines, modern video games, 
collector’s items, memorabilia 
and more in 5,000 square feet of 
gentle mayhem.
The museum is being booted 
from the space it has occupied 
in the Hunter’s Square Shopping 
Center since it opened in the 
1980s because the shopping 
center is being torn down to 
make way for a Meijer’s store. 

Rosenfeld said a new location is 
being sought.
Another big reason for Uncle 
Miltie’s success this season was 
Cohen’s improvement during the 
season, Rosenfeld said.
After working with Elbinger 
to calm his nerves while bowling 
and with the help of a new bowl-
ing ball, Rosenfeld said, Cohen 
raised his average nearly 30 pins 
starting in mid-season.
He bowled a 206 game, a 
whopping 50 pins over his aver-
age, in the league playoff semi-
finals.
Rosenfeld normally averag-
es around 180, but he said he 
bowled the entire league season 
with a torn tendon in his right 
arm. He originally suffered the 
injury midway through the pre-
vious league season.
“The arm really hurt at times,
” 
Rosenfeld said. “But I had to get 
through it.
”
Rosenfeld said he used 
SalonPas pain relief patches and 
a compression sleeve, and he had 
bone spurs removed and PRT 
(Platelet-Rich Plasma) treatment 
during the season to relieve the 
pain.
After all that, he said, his 
pain level improved from 8-9 to 
5-6 out of 10.
The 600 Club roster includ-
ed high-average bowlers Mike 
Lieberman (205), Hassan Fatouhi 
(208), Rob Greenfield (208) and 
Rick Woolman (210).
“There are some great bowlers 
on that team,
” Rosenfeld said. 

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Uncle Miltie knocks off the defending champion 
600 Club and wins the Brotherhood-Eddie 
Jacobson B’nai B’rith Bowling League title.

Laughing Matters

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

SPORTS

Meet the champions of the Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson B’nai B’rith 
Bowling League. From left are Uncle Miltie team members Kevin 
Elbinger, Andy Cohen, Eric Foreman and Andy Rosenfeld.

GARY KLINGER

