Japan wins the 2013 Little League World Series
by Ismael Nunez Throughout most of the game both teams failed to connect with men on scoring position. Yet by the 5th Inning California lead 4-3. Yet failed to add more insurance runs on the top of the 5th inning despite having no outs! The big play was a sacrifice fly was hit and […]
Wayne Graczyk’s Role in Japanese Baseball for the Past 37 Years…
The newspaper article had seventeen errors. Seventeen. Factual errors, not typos. Wayne Graczyk counted them. And he remembers each one because those errors led to the job he has today. In 1975 Graczyk, who hails from New Jersey, was attending Sophia University in Tokyo. While reading The Japan Times, an English-language newspaper, he noticed glaring […]
A Month After the Quake and Tsunami, Baseball Begins in Japan
In Tokyo and throughout eastern Japan, offices are a little darker, and fewer escalators are running in an attempt to conserve electricity. But cherry blossoms are in full bloom, a sign of spring, rebirth, and renewal. Another sign of spring – and, ultimately, a return to business as usual – is the start of […]
The Eclectic Flavors of BallPark Food in Japan
Take me out to the ballgame. Take me out to the crowd. Buy me some squid legs and takoyaki. When we see the Carp, we’ll have okonomiyaki. Squid legs? Tako what? What about peanuts and Cracker Jack? We’re talking baseball, but Japanese baseball, and the food at ballparks in Japan is a force to be […]
