Asian Baseball History and Culture is Our Passion
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How to Follow Asian Professional Baseball
So how can English speakers follow Asian baseball? There are now numerous ways to track professional baseball in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan even if you don’t read the native languages. Let’s look at each country in turn.
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Japan’s Favorite Players: No. 12, Masayuki Kakefu
This week Thomas Love Seagull features Masayuki Kakefu
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1966: The Dodgers Return to Japan
Every Monday morning we will post an article from SABR’s award-winning books Nichibei Yakyu: Volumes I and II. Each will present a different chapter in the long history of US-Japan baseball relations. This week Andy McCue focuses on the 1966 Los Angeles Dodgers tour of Japan.
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DEVELOPMENT OF BASEBALL IN SAUDI ARABIA
Probably few are aware of it, but baseball has a history in Saudi Arabia. Until recently, though, it was like an old, rarely perused book that had long gathered dust in the attic.
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Japan’s Favorite Players: No. 13, Kazuhiro Kiyohara
Japanese baseball has produced many great hitters, but it has produced very few figures like Kazuhiro Kiyohara.
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What Can MLB Teams and Fans Learn from the KBO About Playoff Byes?
Since the latest shakeup of the MLB playoff format that created the first-round bye in 2022, there has been discussion every fall about byes, rust, and time off. After four years of this new format, we still do not really have a large enough sample size to draw any firm conclusions. However, something that often…
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Japan’s Favorite Players: No. 14, Tatsunori Hara
Today Thomas Love seagull features Tatsunori Hara in his series on Japan’s top players
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No Alibis: The Detroit Tigers’ 1962 Tour of Japan
Every Monday morning we will post an article from SABR’s award-winning books Nichibei Yakyu: Volumes I and II. Each will present a different chapter in the long history of US-Japan baseball relations. This week Andrew Forbes focuses on the Detroit Tigers 1962 visit to Japan.
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Excerpt: In the Japanese Ballpark: Behind the Scenes of Nippon Professional Baseball
Off Base with Howard Cole recently published an excerpted interview with Bobby Valentine from In the Japanese Ballpark: Behind the Scenes of Nippon Professional Baseball by Robert Fitts
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