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...invariably happens late in the ball game. The starting pitcher is tired, the home team's lead is threatened, and help is needed. The gate in Yankee Stadium's right-centerfield fence swings open and a Datsun painted in pinstripes taxis a relief pitcher toward the diamond. Eyes strain to see who is inside the car, voices murmur, hopes rise. The car stops, the stadium organist sweeps into the regal strains of Pomp and Circumstance, and the crowd exults. Out steps Albert Walter ("Sparky") Lyle. He sheds his warmup jacket with measured nonchalance and strides toward the pitcher...
Several miles south of Lampang's provincial capital is the tracking station, designated Koka after a small town nearby. It is the home of approximately 250 Americans and is a self-contained community. It features, among other things, a Non-Commissioned Officers' Club, a baseball diamond, and instruction in Korean Karate...
...across a movie infantry-platoon ethnic spectrum. As New York Times Columnist Red Smith noted, Nixon "saluted young and old, white and black, Latin and Nordic, lefthander and righthander, Catholic and WASP, Jew and American Indian." No one would be offended, except perhaps a handful of Liechtensteiner and Tibetan diamond buffs...
...started flowing in. Tim Boggs, 23, dropped out of the University of Wisconsin to work for $50 a week as McGovern's state youth coordinator; he registered 13,000 students at the university in Madison, and 10,000 of them voted for McGovern in the Wisconsin primary. Larry Diamond, 21, president of the Stanford student body, provided 200 volunteers for McGovern for Northern California and got 5,000 Stanford students to the polls...
...baseball today-at a time when the game boasts its finest group of receivers since the days of Roy Campanella and Yogi Berra. From the very outset, in his first full season with the Reds in 1968, the husky (6 ft., 209 Ibs.), handsome athlete took charge on the diamond, calling the defensive shots, cutting down base runners like so many cornstalks, and imposing his canny grasp of pitching tactics on temperamental hurlers. Said former Reds Pitcher Jim Maloney, eight years Bench's senior: "He'll come out to the mound and chew...