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...didn't lift a bat on behalf of his old teammates, but the standing ovation he got from 20,980 fans at Yankee Stadium made it clear that they were delighted to have him back anyway. Wearing his old No. 7 uniform, Mickey Mantle last week began his new career as batting, outfield (and sometimes first-base) coach with the team he helped lead to twelve pennants in 18 years. What brought the 38-year-old Oklahoman-now a restaurant and clothing-chain executive-back into the pinstripes? Mantle simply missed baseball. "If I could still play," he sighed...
...guard was now permanently established: six North Vietnamese and nine Khmers. None of us spoke the other's language, but we talked just the same and in a short time became remarkably close. When I asked for water, I said "nuoc," or "bat lua" when I wanted a light for my cigarette, or "cam on" when the light was provided. For every Vietnamese or Khmer word I learned, they demanded to know the equivalent in "Washington." I found out that the small oil lamp every soldier carries with him is called a caiden. After I used the word...
...night last week, while the Machine was beating a team from New York, Tony Perez came up to bat with the bases loaded and got all his weight into one. Way, way up in the left-field grandstand's third deck were two ingrates who thought they were safe. Tony's 500-ft. blast just cleared them and their sign, which read "Jimmy and Tobi Love the Mets." The Mets...
This would count for little if Golden Bat were not persistently entertaining and deftly professional. The company, all aged 25 or under, was formed two years ago as an underground theater group calling itself The Tokyo Kid Brothers, and is now designated as the La Mama Tokyo troupe. English is slightly favored over Japanese as the language of the evening, but each tongue is like a quick-change costume donned for the humor of it. Some of the speech-solo numbers could stand cutting. However, one of these speech solos, delivered with exquisite intensity by Shoichi Saito, contains the distilled...
...show's many dance numbers are mesmeric revels. The cast is totally winning, and so are the demon drummer and his galvanizing group up behind the scrim. In midsummer New York, Golden Bat is a surprising tonic for which one can only say arigato...