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Baseball in Japan

January 20, 2015 by andy

Baseball in Japan

 This article is a few years old but still interesting for the history of baseball in Japan In recent years, the arrival in the United States of players like Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui has enlightened Americans about the popularity of the sport in Japan. But most Americans don’t know that Japan has almost as […]

Filed Under: Baseball, Japan Stories, Sport Tagged With: babe ruth, baseball, defecting, hideki matsui, history, ichiro suzuki, Japan, japan at war, jonathon hardcastle, lou gehrig, united states

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