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<text id=90TT3120>
<title>
Nov. 19, 1990: Battered In Banzai Ball
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Nov. 19, 1990 The Untouchables
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
PEOPLE, Page 100
Battered in Banzai Ball
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<body>
<p>By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT/Reported by Elizabeth Rudulph
</p>
<p> 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?
</p>
</body>
</article>
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