Best-selling writer Robert Whiting, author of such sporting classics as "You Gotta Have Wa," "The Chrysanthemum and the Bat" and "The Meaning of Ichiro," was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the inaugural Foreign Sportswriters Association of Japan Media Awards dinner on Tuesday night in Tokyo.
Robert Whiting, author of several acclaimed books on Japanese baseball, accepts his Lifetime Achievement Award at the Foreign Sportswriters Association of Japan Media Awards dinner.
Whiting, who has penned numerous articles over the years for the likes of The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Time and Newsweek, in addition to a long list of Japanese publications, recounted his first attempt at having a manuscript published for those in attendance at the event.