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Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 28, 2015

Coping with intense heat at Koshien Stadium a real challenge

Can you imagine the annual National High School Baseball Tournament being played somewhere else besides Koshien Stadium? A fan has suggested, because of the intense heat earlier this summer and the likelihood global warming and climate change will make it even hotter in the coming years, the tournament...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Aug 10, 2015

Waseda's first-year sensation Kiyomiya takes center stage

Any baseball fan, from the casual to the hardcore, who didn't know Waseda Jitsugyo first-year player Kotaro Kiyomiya had an RBI hit in his Summer Koshien debut on Saturday, probably spent the day off the grid.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Oct 12, 2014

Playoff system selling Japanese baseball short

The Hanshin Tigers and Hiroshima Carp on Sunday played a hotly contested, tense, and entertaining game full of momentum shifts and almost everything anyone — anyone who likes pitching and defense at least — would want out of a playoff game in which one team's season was on the line.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 11, 2014

MLB All-Star squad to face Samurai Japan in November

Major League Baseball will organize an All-Star team and visit Japan this fall to play Samurai Japan, Nippon Professional Baseball announced on Tuesday.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 14, 2013

Lessons on ballpark seating etiquette for Japanese baseball

Whose side are you on? Or, rather, which side are you on?
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 7, 2013

Ramirez becomes first foreigner to reach 2,000-hit milestone in Japanese baseball

The performance was special this time. Alex Ramirez celebrated on his way around the bases, kissing two fingers and pointing at the sky between first and second, but his patented post-home run ritual was missing as he was congratulated by the rest of the Yokohama BayStars.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 28, 2013

2013 Central League Preview

In order of predicted finish:
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 9, 2013

Japan beats Taiwan 4-3 at World Baseball Classic

Thanks to Sho Nakata's tie-breaking run with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning, Japan inches its way toward the WBC semifinals.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 7, 2013

Japanese roots spread wide at World Baseball Classic

One of the beautiful things about sports is that there are always stories about the losers, not just the winners.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 15, 2013

Giants baseball plan at Tokyo Dome Hotel; special winter seafood dinner at Armani / Ristorante

Tokyo Dome Hotel baseball plan
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Feb 3, 2013

Eagles facing big challenges in bid to make playoffs

Will this be the season the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles make it to the Pacific League Climax Series for the second time in their nine years of existence?
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Jan 15, 2013

Hall of Fame long overdue for another foreign member

Victor Starffin was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1960. Wally Yonamine was enshrined in 1994.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jul 10, 2011

Pro baseball hopes to inspire Fukushima in return

On July 29, the Yakult Swallows will be playing the Yomiuri Giants at Azuma Stadium in Fukushima City, the closest a Japan pro baseball game will be played this season to the restricted zone around the crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No. 1. Yakult will be the home team for the encounter that...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Apr 12, 2011

Japanese baseball finally ready to get season under way

"Gambaro Tohoku.''
EDITORIALS
Mar 25, 2011

Pro baseball's view on disaster

The Central and Pacific leagues of pro baseball have shown contrasting approaches to their game schedule for this year in the wake of the March 11 quake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan. On March 15, the Pacific League decided to postpone the start of its season to April 12.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Mar 13, 2011

'Shock Illumination'; baseball played the Drucker way; CM of the week: Hebel Haus

Japan is a land of disasters both man-made and natural, and the theme of the TV Tokyo variety special,

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