A Soulful Journey

“I never forgot about what I want to do,” said Kruk, who batted .316 last season and who in eight years in the majors has a career average of .300. “I never forgot about baseball. But my main focus was getting my radiation and killing the cancer. I think the Phillies even think that I’ve been working out every day, but the other day I was tired, I didn’t go. But it came to the point where even if my skills aren’t going to be a sharp when I come back, so be it. I’d rather hit .220 and live and hit .300 in cash it in at the end of the season.”

Mr. Rosen came to Canada to sell his friend, Dr. Berg’s, books.   He went to the home of a wealthy Jew and began to discuss Dr. Berg’s brilliant discoveries in medicine. “Who the devil is this guy?   I never heard of him!   What did he do that I should buy his books?” “Don’t you know?   He discovered pinochle,” said Dr. Rosen. “Oh is that so?   He certainly must be a great man.   I’ll take all you have.” Not everyone is interested in expanding their knowledge.  They are only interested in what they already know.  Yet, if we can find something in which they take an interest and then bring them around change is possible.  W should be "our brother's keeper."

The day after Elie Wiesel won the Nobel prize, an aide to Peter Ueberroth, the baseball commissioner, asked Wiesel to be at the phone at a specific time the next day.   At the appointed time, the aide, called and Ueberroth got on the line. “My son had appeared at my press conference (in New York) in a New York Yankees jacket, so I though maybe he was calling to protest or something,” Wiesel said.   “Instead, he told me, I want to bestow a very great important honor on you.   Would you throw out the first ball in the World Series on Saturday?” Wiesel said he told Ueberroth that he could not because it was the Jewish Sabbath.   Ueberroth came back with a counteroffer: Sunday.   Again, Wiesel demurred, because it was Sukkoth, the Jewish holiday. Finally, Wiesel said, Ueberroth called and said he had consulted with rabbis and was told it would be all right to throw out the ball after sundown and that the game could be delayed so he wouldn’t have to travel bef...