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In the first interleague player deal of the new baseball season, Casey Stengel has picked up (temporarily) one slightly used bandleader from the New York Yankees. Yankee Owner Dan Topping, in the name of auld lang syne, granted Guy Lombardo a "one-day release from your duties at Yankee Stadium" to play for the Mets at their opener in new Shea Stadium.

"Soccer has hit my country like a disease," says Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdullah al Faisal, himself a victim of the contagion. "I myself," added the wistful 42-year-old, whose four royal brothers and 20 cousins all play in his own Saudi Soccer League, "would watch it all the time, if I could."