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What Will Ma-Kun Mean for New York?
Visits: 4New York Yankees pitchers and catchers report to spring training on February 14, and among the...
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Wayne Graczyk’s Role in Japanese Baseball for the Past 37 Years…
Visits: 3The newspaper article had seventeen errors. Seventeen. Factual errors, not typos. Wayne Graczyk counted them. And...
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JapanBall: The 2011 Trip And BBQ Hosted by Marty Kuehnert, Sr Advisor to the Rakuten Golden Eagles
Visits: 0Last month, as they have for the past twenty years, Bob Bavasi and Mayumi Smith guided...
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Bobby V Lends a Helping Hand to Japan
Visits: 1Bobby Valentine may have left Japan at the end of the 2009 baseball season, but it’s...
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Ryo Shinkawa: Interpreting the MLB
Visits: 0 Sapporo, a city in the Japanese archipelago‘s northernmost island of Hokkaido, is more than five...
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A Month After the Quake and Tsunami, Baseball Begins in Japan
Visits: 2 In Tokyo and throughout eastern Japan, offices are a little darker, and fewer escalators are...
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What is Baseball’s Place in the Crisis in Japan?
Visits: 0 It’s common knowledge that on March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Japan, and a...
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MLB and NPB: New Places, Same Faces
Visits: 0 Baseball players in Japan began spring training last week, and MLB pitchers and catchers reported...
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Marty Kuehnert: A Lifetime in Japanese Baseball
Visits: 28“Everything with Japan started in the toilet.” When Marty Kuehnert speaks of the serendipitous event that...
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Japanese Baseball Year in Review: 2010
Visits: 0It’s that time again. It’s the time when everyone looks back on the year that was,...
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On the MLB/NPB Posting System and Hisashi Iwakuma
Visits: 5There are plenty of Hot Stove topics occupying the sports pages this offseason, from the Yankees/Derek...
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The Climax of the Japanese Baseball Season
Visits: 0Baseball fans are in the midst of the fervor of the MLB playoffs – with its...
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A Whirlwind Tour of Japanese Baseball
Visits: 6For the third year in a row, I joined JapanBall, run by Bob Bavasi and Mayumi...
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Japanese Baseball Books
Visits: 0It takes dedication to make a career out of writing about a niche topic such as...
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The Japanese All-Star Series
Visits: 0 Image via Wikipedia While watching the recent MLB All-Star game, I started thinking about what...
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The Mascots of Japanese Baseball
Visits: 4The Phillies have their Phanatic, San Diego has a famous chicken, and the Mets have a...
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The Eclectic Flavors of BallPark Food in Japan
Visits: 19Take me out to the ballgame. Take me out to the crowd. Buy me some squid...
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Inside Information on Japanese Baseball
Visits: 1 Image via Wikipedia Baseball fans across America are familiar with the Yomiuri Giants because they...
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The Oendan: The Japanese Baseball Fan Club
Visits: 2“What I was amazed, bewildered, and never, never surprised at was the love that the Japanese...
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What is Japanese Baseball?
Visits: 0 Ever since 1872, when professor Horace Wilson explained the game of baseball to his students...
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Baseball Reflections Now on Japanese Baseball
Visits: 0 I’m excited to contribute to Baseball Reflections because it combines two of my loves: Japan...