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Former Kintetsu Buffaloes slugger Ralph Bryant holds kids clinic

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Aug 22, 2019

Former Kintetsu Buffaloes slugger Ralph Bryant holds kids clinic

by Jason Coskrey

Ralph Bryant is 58 years old and hasn't played top-level baseball since his final season with the Kintetsu Buffaloes in 1995. But on Thursday morning, he was wearing a baseball glove and needed to call on his old reflexes again to keep up with an ...

Exhibition highlights legacy of U.S.-Japan baseball ties

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 ...

Excavating Japan's buried baseball history with Masanori Murakami

Books Apr 18, 2015

Excavating Japan's buried baseball history with Masanori Murakami

by Kris Kosaka

Sometimes historical analysis can't compete with a good personal story, as Robert K. Fitts — a baseball expert and former archaeologist — proves with his newest book, "Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer." ...

Delay in agreement on new posting system just latest black eye for NPB

Baseball / Japanese Baseball | NOTES ON A SCORECARD Dec 3, 2013

Delay in agreement on new posting system just latest black eye for NPB

by Jack Gallagher

Pretty sad to see the negotiations over the new posting system between NPB and MLB continue to drag on. It's already December now and MLB teams are trying to set their rotations for next season. It doesn't look too good when NPB sends its director ...

Japanese Baseball | BASEBALL BULLET-IN Feb 10, 2013

Murakami ideal man for new U.N. goodwill ambassador role

by Wayne Graczyk

Kudos to Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese player in the major leagues, on his recent appointment as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. "Mashi" is highly qualified to take the leadership role in supporting charities and, having been acquainted ...

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