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PAGE 40 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 10, 1986
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Mets may go to bat sans Jewish fans
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by Andrew Muchin
NEW YORK (JTA)—This Yom
Kippur, some Jews may be con
templating not only their own mis
deeds, but also one they consider
to have been committed by the
commissioner of baseball.
The beloved New York Mets
baseball team is scheduled to play
one and maybe two National League
playoff games here in the world’s
largest community of Jews on the
holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
The Mets will play the fourth of
a best-of-seven-game series with
the Houston Astros at 8:20 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 12, at Shea Stadium
here. The fifth game, if necessary,
would take place at 3:10 p.m.
Monday.
Although the decisions in years
past by Hall of Famers Hank
Greenberg and Sandy Koufax not
to play important baseball games
on Yom Kippur won universal
respect, some Jewish Mets fans no
doubt are feeling a wee bit torn, if
not angry.
Yet, the Jewish agencies have
decided not to go to bat for them,
although their leaders, some of
whom are baseball fans, were dis
pleased with the scheduling of the
games.
Rabbi Alexander Schindler,
president of the Union of Ameri
can Hebrew Congregations, urged
Jewish baseball fans to follow the
example of Greenberg and place
the sanctity of Yom Kippur above
that of baseball.
“The scheduling this year is
unfortunate, but as Jews we have
no right to impose our religious
calendar on the rest of the coun
try,” he said. “Doing without the
Mets for one day,” he added, “might
even have the effect of reminding
Jewish fans of their religious obli
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gations.”
Nathan Perlmutter, national
director of the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith, said Jews
can’t demand rescheduling because
the Mets are “a private enterprise.”
He told the JTA that Jewish base
ball fans “will know what to do”
about this dilemma. “I’m a base
ball fan. This poses absolutely no
problem.” He said ADL has made
no contact with the commissioner
of baseball, Peter Ueberroth, over
the schedule and doesn’t plan to.
The same goes for the American
Jewish Committee. The agency’s
executive vice president, Dr. David
Gordis, last month urged in re
sponse to a reporter’s question that
the games be rescheduled. But he
said he doubted that AJC would
deal with the issue any further,
explaining that it wasn’t important
enough and that the scheduling
was only an inconvenience that likely
was unintentional.
The American Jewish Congress
has had no comment pro or con.
“We felt really that it was not of
such a major concern,” explained
Israel Levine, director of communi
cations.
The Jewish Community Rela
tions Council of New York also
has taken no position, contending
“that baseball is separated from
religious life,” according to Michael
Miller, executive director.
However, Miller said that after
the playoffs he “would probably
be shooting off a letter” asking that
Ueberroth take into consideration
important dates of all religions
when scheduling games. That would
“allow all religious baseball fans to
enjoy without guilt,” he said.
Miller added that he was en
couraged by the Jewish organiza
tions’ public statements. “Take a
look from where we’ve come,” he
said, when Jews used to express no
outrage at such scheduling.
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That feeling was echoed by
Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, president of
the Rabbinical Assembly. But he
cautioned that “this is not one of
the great issues of our time.”
The so-called offensive playoff
schedule is the creation of Ueber
roth’s office, according to a spo
kesman, Richard Levin. “Unfor
tunately this year Yom Kippur
came in the middle” of the playoffs,
he said. “We really regret it.” In the
American League playoffs, only
the fifth game, if necessary, would
be played on Yom Kippur—at 3
p.m. Oct. 13 in Anaheim, Calif.
Once the commissioner’s office
realized the National League con
flict, it unsuccessfully tried to alter
the schedule, Levin said. However,
the playoffs couldn’t begin earlier
because only one day off separated
them from the regular season.
Neither could they begin later, be
cause the World Series, the culmi
nating event of the season, runs
into late October, which presents
risks of inclement weather.
Why then wasn’t the Sunday
night game moved to the afternoon
and the Monday afternoon game
to the evening, so they wouldn't
fall on Yom Kippur? Levin said the
commissioner’s office suggested
those changes during late July and
August to the televiser of the games,
ABC-TV, which refused.
An ABC programmer, Karen
Dyton, denied that Ueberroth’s of
fice tried for six weeks to change
the schedule. “They did not once
suggest changing the schedule until
about a month ago.”
By then, it was too late to make a
change because of contractual obli
gations to other concerns, accord
ing to Dyton. Besides, she said,
A BC all along was “merely follow
ing the schedule that major league
baseball gave us...Whenever they
schedule the games, we put them
on.”
Jews, of course, have the identi
cal relationship to their worship on
Yom Kippur. Thus, New York
Times sports columnist George
Vecsey predicts a Divine solution:
torrential rain throughout Yom
Kippur, preventing any baseball
game.
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