A tenor hits a homer: after 23 years in Bern's opera company, Charles Vail will go home to the United States at the end of the 2003-2004 theatre season. Bern will lose not only a good tenor, but also a dedicated baseball coach.

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A tenor hits a homer: after 23 years in Bern's opera company, Charles Vail will go home to the United States at the end of the 2003-2004 theatre season. Bern will lose not only a good tenor, but also a dedicated baseball coach.

Not too many professional opera singers play baseball, but both music and sports have been part of Chuck Vali's life since he was a boy growing up in Illinois, and, luckily, he has never had to choose between them. As a young man, Vail never planned to become a singer. In fact, when he graduated from high school, he had no idea what he wanted to be. But his father was a veterinarian, so he enrolled in a two-year prevet program at Iowa State University, planning to attend the four-year vet school afterwards. ...

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