When Samurai Japan manager Atsunori Inaba looks at the team's new red uniforms, he’s filled with passion and enthusiasm.
For Inaba, the uniform is a visual representation of the fire and intensity he wants his players to show. He can already see them taking the field in a couple of months in those striking red tops in pursuit of the prize the nation’s baseball establishment has been diligently working toward for nearly five years.
Red may have been the color of the day on Wednesday, when Japan revealed the uniforms it would wear during the Tokyo Olympics, but gold is the only color that really matters this summer.