The baseball season, which began last week with a pair of games in Japan, gets going in earnest this week. Welcome back.

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Robert De Niro and the “Singing Mammoths” rock out on the set of the Mets’ erstwhile postgame show, Kiner’s Korner, 1972:

Don’t look back, Satchel–something might be gaining on you, 1971:

“I threw the piss out of the ball the last part of the year,” 1981: