
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Jun 2, 2017
Exhibition highlights legacy of U.S.-Japan baseball ties
by Jason Coskrey
Warren Cromartie, formerly of the Yomiuri Giants in NPB and the Montreal Expos and Kansas City Royals in MLB, pointed at Masanori Murakami and called him "a hero." Murakami, who was standing nearby, was Japan's first-ever major leaguer, a pitcher who at the age of ...