Why Japan is baseball’s answer to its longtime prayer
Major League Baseball season is fully underway. Such an event might be the time when I’d point out that baseball is ...
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.
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Stanford's Rintaro Sasaki blazing new trail to MLB for Japanese phenoms: 'Doing it my way'
Rintaro Sasaki opted out of the NPB draft to come play college baseball in America. Will his decision work out?
From Oh to Ohtani and beyond: How Japanese baseball reached new heights
No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...
Japanese baseball fans are crazy for Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers. MLB has a plan to get them to root for every team
Shohei Ohtani is arguably the most popular athlete on the planet, and that superstardom has helped rapidly accelerate MLB’s ...
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Why Japan is baseball’s answer to its longtime prayer
I think baseball’s got a true chance to be a world ... America has more than 200 million more people in it than Japan. Game one’s ratings in Japan would be the equivalent of roughly the ...
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What’s the future of baseball in Japan as the best players leave for MLB?
Los Angeles Dodgers’ Tommy Edman, from top left, Shohei Ohtani (17) and manager Dave Roberts stand on the field before an MLB Japan Series exhibition baseball game against the Hanshin Tigers, Sunday, ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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MLB wants Japan to cheer for more than the Dodgers and Ohtani. The prize could be billions
TOKYO — During the early innings of a nighttime exhibition between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Yomiuri Giants, Nori Kawana walked through the concourse of the Tokyo Dome in disbelief. As the ...
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Shohei Ohtani, Japan’s other baseball stars shook their nerves and delivered in MLB’s Tokyo opener
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani waits on a pitch in the sixth ...