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- PEOPLE, Page 100Battered in Banzai Ball
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- By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT/Reported by Elizabeth Rudulph
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- They seemed like a jolly pair, did manager Don Zimmer of
- the Chicago Cubs and Motoshi Fujita, manager of the Yomiuri
- Giants, as they embraced at an all-star game between the
- Americans and the Japanese in Tokyo. But the smiles soon
- vanished as the Japanese team rolled over the Major League team
- last week with a hefty four-game lead in the eight-match series.
- The American squad, which included Oakland pitcher Dave Stewart
- and Detroit home-run king Cecil Fielder, pleaded jet lag before
- they finally notched a 10-5 win in the fifth game and a 6-6 tie
- in the sixth. The puzzled Japanese at first thought the
- Americans were toying with them, but manager Zimmer gives credit
- due: "We are playing as hard as we can, but the Japanese teams
- have gotten much stronger." Will baseball go the way of the
- transistor?
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