
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Oct 25, 2016
For Fighters slugger Laird, sushi became good-luck charm and sparked fan craze
by Jason Coskrey
It all began with a dinner. Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters infielder Brandon Laird was out having dinner in Sapporo one night last year, when the chef delivered a serving of sushi that would spark a movement among Fighters fans. "I went to dinner and the chef ...