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.
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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‘Proud and honored’: Kosuke Fukudome, the Chicago Cubs’ first Japanese player, reconnects with team in Tokyo
“So it’s great for Japanese baseball and it’s great for MLB ... Fukudome has mainly been a color commentator and special ...
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What’s the future of baseball in Japan as the best players leave for MLB?
Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later this year, reminders that some of the top talent in American baseball is ...
The best team in the National League? For two days in Japan, it’s looked like the Hanshin Tigers
TOKYO (AP) — For two days in Japan, it’s the Hanshin Tigers who have have looked like the class of the National League. In ...
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BASEBALL/ Stanford’s Sasaki finds groove in U.S., despite alarming ramen
And only scouted players can join Stanford’s baseball team. Sasaki’s track record in Japan allowed him to join the team on a full scholarship, which exempts him from paying tuition and ...
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Andy Stankiewicz Named 2025 Collegiate National Team Manager
USA Baseball today announced that University of Southern California Head Coach and 2014 Rod Dedeaux Coach of the Year Andy ...
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MLB wants Japan to cheer for more than the Dodgers and Ohtani. The prize could be billions
National teams from MLB and Japan will participate in another World Baseball Classic, the sport’s recurring international tournament, next year. But Manfred also expects to propose “more ...
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From Oh to Ohtani: How Japan developed a generation of baseball superstars (again)
In 1934, an American team featuring the best baseball players in the world – Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and more – went on a barnstorming tour around Japan. More than half a million ...
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The Moving Story of Bringing Baseball Back to Manzanar, Where Thousands of Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During World War II
The first all-Japanese baseball team outside of Japan, the Excelsior, was formed by the Reverend Takie Okumura in 1899 on Oahu. Shortly after, in 1903, the first mainland team, the San Francisco ...