From the e-mail box this week comes a request from Mike Berger of Tokyo who wrote, "I would love to read about the retro uniforms we've been seeing in Japan pro ball recently. What's the history behind those white Giants uniforms, and how about the ugly black togs of the Tigers? Something from the 1930s?"
From another e-mail, here's a trivia question sent in by reader Rob Rieger, also of Tokyo. He wants to know: Has there ever been a foreign player in Japanese baseball who was an MVP selection in the major leagues, before or after his stint in Japan?
There are three, and Ichiro Suzuki does not count, as he was not a foreign player in Japan.