Amid the fury of the sixth wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Japan’s 12 NPB teams will open their spring training camps on Tuesday in Miyazaki and Okinawa prefectures, where locals are hoping the game can bring an economic upturn.
With the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant, the sense of unease surrounding baseball’s spring is mounting as one player after another has become infected.
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