About Janet

Janet Lebamoff grew up in a small Michigan town where at a young age she sat in her father’s study

listening to Ernie Harwell announce Detroit Tiger games on the radio while her father wrote his

weekly sermons. The youngest of eight children, Janet knew that Sundays were meant for church in

the morning and the family gathering to listen to or watch the Tigers on TV in the afternoon. Before

graduating from Central Michigan University with an accounting degree, she met her husband, Bob,

who attended Michigan State and was a member of the Spartan baseball team. Because as a child

she scored those Tiger games, she knew that a 6-4-3 was much more than just a data accounting

entry! Fueled by her love of baseball, Janet volunteered countless hours at a local Little League by

raking the diamond, chalking the field, and even scoring her son’s teams’ games. You could say that

baseball was in her blood!
 
In September, 2006, Janet was diagnosed with breast cancer and was told by her doctors that she

had only a short time to live. Her response was that she had a family to raise and baseball games to

attend! Janet fought with quiet courage , strong faith in Jesus, and some German stubbornness. In

November, 2010, she entered heaven leaving behind her husband, daughter Lauren ( Anderson

University graduate 2013), and son Alex (Concordia Lutheran High School graduate 2013.)