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What's the future of baseball in Japan as the best players leave for MLB?
reminders that some of the top talent in American baseball is now Japanese. That's a point of pride at home, but also a ...
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Why Japan is baseball’s answer to its longtime prayer
When I was a kid, it would basically have been unthinkable that Japan would have more viewers for the World Series than where baseball originated. But I’m not sure we should be so surprised.
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
The Moving Story of Bringing Baseball Back to Manzanar, Where Thousands of Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During World War II
In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the ...
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To make matters worse during rehabilitation, there are no outfield or designated hitters, and Japan's highest hitter (Min Chang-ki's Japanese baseball) with an annua…
A half-player with an average salary of $18 million, who is often sick and poor at defense. Boston Red Sox outfielder Yoshida ...
From Oh to Ohtani: How Japan developed a generation of baseball superstars (again)
The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.
Baseball in Japan looks about the same, but the food and the vibe are different
The jammed sellout at the Tokyo Dome as the Dodgers and Cubs opened their regular season had a different vibe than the usual ...
How two art forms, baseball and manga, became intertwined in Japan
All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known ...
Cuba had record 26 players on opening-day MLB rosters and Japan had 12 for its most since 2012
There were 265 players from 18 nations and territories outside of the 50 states among 954 players on opening day active ...
From building stadiums to selling trading cards, baseball biz is different in Japan
Topps, Populous and New Balance are all examples of baseball-connected brands that are tailoring their businesses to succeed ...
There’s no easy answers for slowing down rising level of pitching injuries at all levels of baseball
Figuring out a cause for the skyrocketing number of arm injuries among pitchers is easy. Finding a solution could prove much ...
Wall Street Journal13d
America’s Pastime Is Being Completely Transformed—by Japan
Anyone who knew the history of sports in Japan might have expected the fans in the room to reply, “Play in Nippon Professional Baseball.” ...
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Baseball in Japan looks about the same, but the food and the vibe are different
Baseball in Japan — the game is called "yakyu" (field ball) in Japanese — carries more of a rock-concert vibe than its American cousin. And with Shohei Ohtani teasing fans for a week in Tokyo ...