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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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Nichibei Yakyu: 1907 St. Louis Baseball Team From Hawaii Tours Japan
by Yoichi Nagata Every Tuesday morning we will post an article from SABR’s award-winning books Nichibei Yakyu: Volumes I and II. Each will present a different chapter in the long history of US-Japan baseball relations. We will begin with the first foreign baseball club to visit Japan: the St. Louis team from Hawaii which arrived…
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1950s Nichibei Yakyu (MLB Tour) Footage
This YouTube video contains a hodgepodge of colorized footage from various 1950s MLB tours. This 13 minutes, 30 second video has scenes from the 1949 San Fransisco Seals tour, the 1953 New York Giants tour, the 1955 New York Yankees tour, and the 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers tour, as well as some Tokyo Big Six University…
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September 4, 2025 Zoom Presentation: Baseball is Hot in Korea!
Hunhee Cho and Eunwoo Jung will present How GenZ’ers in Korea Sparked a New Era of 10 Million Baseball Fans Join us on September 4, 2025 at 8 pm EST for SABR’s Asian Baseball Research Committee Monthly Zoom Presentation. Baseball is hot in Korea!With nearly 11 million fans annually, the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) is…
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Masanori “Mashi” Murakami Spins Tales of MLB Legends
After throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium prior to the game on July 29, 2025, Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese to play in the Major Leagues, held a press conference at the stadium. Now 81 years old, Murakami recalled his days with the San Francisco Giants in 1964 and 1965 and recounted his…
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Diary Reference Pushes Earliest Date of Baseball in Korea to 1894.
As many sources still list 1896 as the earliest known baseball game in Korea, the SABR Asian Baseball Committee has decided to call attention to this 2016 article by baseball historian Patrick Bourogo that provides evidence that the game was played in Korea as early as 1894.
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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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