Japan

https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTGrmtnB4V3HFYoPj4TLlHFjx0SwHQRNMpbPwQv6UCV_PQNsQxf Actually, the percent of MLB players born in the USA has been below 75% since 2000 when it was 77%. SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012 Is baseball being outso...

When C. J. Hoppin was 13, living with his family in Japan, he was briefly a bat boy for the Yankees, who were on a six-week tour of the Pacific islands.

Article by Victor Nunn The popularity of the game baseball has crossed continents as far as the East Asian island of Japan. The exact date cannot be traced on when it really started as a sport in Japan, the estimated era that it got into the mentalit...

Texas' Yu Darvish, the 25-year-old rookie sensation, will start Tuesday against the Yankees' Hiroki Kuroda, who has the lowest earned run average of any Japanese-born player in league history.

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The former Nippon Ham Fighters ace Yu Darvish is now with the Texas Rangers, but Japan has coped with the defections of stars before.

Technically the season began when many of us were sleeping last week in Japan with the Mariners and Athletics. Wednesday night, MLB showed off Marlins Park by bringing in the defending champions. Thursday had seven match-ups, but today is finally ...

The Cubs and Mets made baseball history in March of 2000 playing a two-game series in Tokyo, Japan. It marked the first time major league baseball open the season outside of North America. It was a homecoming of sorts for … Continue reading ...

I sure as heck didn’t realize that the MLB season started yesterday, did you?  Well it did…for two teams at least. To my surprise, yesterday, when I was clicking around the interwebs, I saw a box score showing that Seattle beat Oakland,...

While most of us remain in our winter hibernation mode like grizzly bears, the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics are playing baseball for real, as in games that count in the standings. Bud Selig, that wild and crazy guy who is commissioner of Ma...

Sky Blue played in front of a packed house in the first of two exhibition games in Japan against the two year undefeated INAC Kobe Leonessa and fell in the 85th minute with a great strike from INAC’s striker Megumi Takase.  The game went back and...

Diamondbacks reliever Takashi Saito grew up in an area that was decimated by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan last year.