from a Village Voice 1973 clip:
September 6, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 36
From pitch to bitch
As soon as Geraldo Rivera cakewalked across the Leroy Street playground
diamond last Monday night, you knew the charity softball game between the
Sixth Precinct cops and the Mattachine Society gays had turned into the
Press Putsch of the Year. Forget about warming up gay-straight relations
in the Village or that $2 donation for retarded children you shelled out.
Who really cared about the softball game, when all you could see from the
bleachers were a chorus of tv cameras and a reporter with a copy of (More)
hanging out of her purse?
.....
And so there they were, Geraldo umping at first with five packs of Trident
in his mouth. There was Dick Schaap of Channel 4 News, taking his lumps as
home plate ump. There were CBS and the Post and a One-to-One girl in an
almost-Adolpho, beaming benignly as Rivera gave his 100th interview.
....
But wait. Right now, at that very same home plate, "Mama" Jean Devente,
the Mattachine manager, is fighting with Dick Schaap and Tom Knoble of the
cops because the cops are using an aluminum bat. Foul and illegal and
discriminatory against the women on the Mattachine team, growls Mama, but
Schaap doesn't see it that way. The aluminum bat is an official softball
bat, reasons Schaap, because it says so right here -- on th Sixth Precinct
aluminum bat.
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