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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Japan’s Favorite Players: No. 19, Yoshinobu Takahashi
A recent poll for a TV special saw more than 50,000 people in Japan vote for their favorite retired baseball players. 20 players emerged from a pool of 9,000. Today, Thomas Love Seagull focus on #19 Yoshinobu Takahashi
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The 1953 Eddie Lopat All-Stars’ Tour of Japan
by C. Paul Rogers III Every Monday 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. This week C. Paul Rogers III tells us about the 1953 Major League All-Stars visit to Japan. Eddie Lopat…
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From Dongdaemun Alleyways to the KBO Official Ball: The Present of Korean Baseball Brands
by Tae-in Chun Dongdaemun, the Beginning of Korean Baseball BrandsThe roots of Korea’s baseball equipment industry began in the alleyways surrounding Dongdaemun Stadium in Seoul. In the early 1970s, sporting goods shops that had been scattered throughout Jongno and Euljiro gradually gathered around the stadium, naturally forming a commercial district. Here, every task needed for…
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Japan’s Favorite Former Ballplayers: #20 Alex Ramirez
A recent poll for a TV special saw more than 50,000 people in Japan vote for their favorite retired baseball players. 20 players emerged from a pool of 9,000. Today, Thomas Love Seagull focus on #20 Alex Ramírez
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The Cold War, a Red Scare, and the New York Giants’ Historic Tour of Japan in 1953
Every Monday 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. This week Steven Wisensale tells us about the New York Giants trip toJapan in 1953.
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Interview with Michael Meyer of ProEyeKyuu.
About a month ago I stumbled across a very useful website for Japanese baseball stats, ProEyeKyuu. Among other things, this English-language site lets you sort all NPB stats by many different categories, contains boxscores of EVERY NPB game and play-by-play results for all NPB games since 2016 as well as broadcast schedules for NPB games.…
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Joe DiMaggio’s Last Hurrah: The 1951 Lefty O’Doul All-Star Tour
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. This week Rob Fitts writes about how Lefty O’Doul brought a MLB all-star team, featuring Joe DiMaggio, to Japan in 1951.
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The Japanese Baseball Card Industry. Video of the January 28, Zoom talk with Tatsuo Shinke, CEO of MINT Sports Cards in Japan
Please join SABR’s Asian Baseball and Baseball Card Research Committees as we host Tatsuo Shinke on Wednesday, January 28 at 8:30 pm EST. Mr. Shinke will discuss the current state of baseball card collecting and the rapidly developing sports card market in Japan.
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Manny Ramírez Saved Taiwanese Baseball
This year is Manny Ramírez’s 10th and final year on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. The general consensus is that he will not get enough votes to be inducted, even if he gets a final-year sympathy bump. He has the numbers to back up his legacy, and even though his performance-enhancing drug (PED) controversy…
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