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U.S. fan uses trading cards as one way to stay on top of Japanese baseball

Baseball / Japanese Baseball | Sac Bunts Aug 26, 2019

U.S. fan uses trading cards as one way to stay on top of Japanese baseball

by Jason Coskrey

If you went out in search of a dedicated Japanese baseball card enthusiast, you might not think to look in Maryland. The "Old Line State," however, is where you'd find Dave McNeely, a 54-year-old computer programmer who, by his estimate, has collected over 60,000 baseball ...

23-year-old pitcher from Myanmar to play for team in Kagawa Prefecture

National Jun 23, 2013

23-year-old pitcher from Myanmar to play for team in Kagawa Prefecture

A pitcher from Myanmar has been signed by a baseball team in Kagawa Prefecture, possibly making him the first player from the Southeast Asian country to join a foreign baseball league. "I want to throw a pitch in front of all of you as soon ...

Baseball / Japanese Baseball | BASEBALL BULLET-IN Feb 24, 2013

Power-hitting catchers still in short supply in Japan

by Wayne Graczyk

Recall our column from last summer pointing out how there are very few catchers in Japanese baseball who can hit? One of the suggestions I made to hopefully improve the situation was for the Japanese teams to see if they can find a halfway decent ...

Training camps commence for Japanese baseball teams

Baseball / Japanese Baseball | WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC Feb 2, 2013

Training camps commence for Japanese baseball teams

Spring training for the 12 Japanese pro baseball teams got under way in earnest on Friday in Miyazaki and Okinawa prefectures ahead of the season openers on March 29. The two most highly touted rookies — right-handers Shintaro Fujinami and Shohei Otani — took their ...

Hall of Fame long overdue for another foreign member

Baseball / Japanese Baseball | HIT AND RUN Jan 15, 2013

Hall of Fame long overdue for another foreign member

by Jason Coskrey

Victor Starffin was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1960. Wally Yonamine was enshrined in 1994. Despite the long and rich history of foreign players in Japan, it only takes those two sentences to sum up the non-Japanese wing of the Hall ...

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