Asian Baseball History and Culture is Our Passion
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How to Follow Asian Professional Baseball
So how can English speakers follow Asian baseball? There are now numerous ways to track professional baseball in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan even if you don’t read the native languages. Let’s look at each country in turn.
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Stars Visit Yakyu-Baseball Exhibit at Cooperstown
During Induction Weekend 2025, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum officially opened the Yakyu-Baseball exhibit.
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Caring for the Grounds at Es Con Field Hokkaido
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters have created this interesting video on their grounds keeper and how he keeps the field in immaculate condition
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Japan’s First Filipino Player
YouTuber Gaijin Baseball presents this fascinating video on the little-known Adelano Rivera, who played for the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants in 1939.
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1934 All American tour of Japan footage
This YouTube post contains colorized footage from the first two games of the 1934 All-American tour of Japan
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Lend-Lease Athletes: John Britton & Jimmie Newberry
This post is a summary of a talk, titled “Lend-Lease Athletes: John Britton & Jimmie Newberry, Post-Integration Negro Leagues, and Japanese Pro Baseball at the end of the US Occupation” to be given at the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, July 26th, 11AM, during the weekend that Ichiro Suzuki will become the…
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Check out the new video The Story of Nomomania!
The Los Angeles Dodgers have just released a fantastic video on Youtube called The Story of Nomomania. With great game footage and exclusive interviews with Hideo Nomo, Peter O’Malley, Mike Piazza, and Don Nomura, I think fans will truly enjoy watching.
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Tony Barnette & Aaron Fischman Zoom Event
On July 10, 2025 SABR’s Asian Baseball Research Committee hosted its first Zoom event. Our guests were former Yakult Swallows closer and Texas Ranger Tony Barnette and author Aaron Fischman. This fascinating event can now be view in its entirety on SABR’s YouTube channel.
SABR Asian Baseball Research Committee Blog 