I love good news! Hopefully by now, many of you have followed the story I first published here right before Rosh Hashanah about baseball player Adam Greenberg and now exactly two weeks later I have some good news to report. As you may recall Adam Greenberg was a rookie in the major leagues back in 2005. At his very first at bat, and on his very first pitch he was struck in the head with the pitch and hasn't played in the majors since then. A determined soul, he got back into the batting cage and has rehabilitated himself in such a way that he's probably in better shape now than he was then. Due to a technicality, his plate appearance in 2005 was never recorded as an at bat and thus a grassroots campaign was begun on his behalf to give him one official at bat. Just the other day, the Miami Marlins granted Adam this opportunity and on Tuesday night, Adam will have an at bat as the Marlins face the Mets. You can watch the game here online for free at the MLB site!http://mlb.mlb.com/mediacenter/#date=10/2/2012
So Rabbi Lenke, what's your fascination with this story? Is it Jewish? Is he? Yes and yes. Adam Greenberg was raised at Temple Beth Tikvah in Madison, CT. But that's not all. On one hand this is a great story about second chances, faith, hope and desire, and yet on the other hand it is a great example of teshuvah. Why teshuvah? When Greenberg was wearing that Cubs uniform on that memorable day, Chicago was facing the Marlins, and now it is the Marlins who are giving Greenberg the moment he has dreamed of his entire life. So stay tuned. There are happy endings. Sometimes where you least expect to find them.
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