Major League Baseball

Japan's baseball bond at heart of 'Homecoming: The Tokyo Series' doc

The poignancy of five Japanese ballplayers returning to their home country as Major League stars resonated with the baseball ...
NBC Washington

How Japanese superstars are helping to revitalize baseball

Last year’s World Series between the New York Yankees and the eventual champions, a Los Angeles Dodgers team led by Japanese phenom Shohei Ohtani, earned the best ratings in seven years. Just a year ...
AOL

Baseball was in need of revitalization. Japanese stars are giving America's pastime a lifeline.

Last year’s World Series between the New York Yankees and the eventual champions, a Los Angeles Dodgers team led by Japanese phenom Shohei Ohtani, earned the best ratings in seven years. Just a year ...
The New York Times

How two art forms, baseball and manga, became intertwined in Japan

Goro Shigeno. Tatsuya Uesugi. Eijun Sawamura. Hyūma Hoshi. All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known worldwide as manga ...
Sports Illustrated

Japanese baseball star Munetaka Murakami is coming and you can get these cards

Munetaka Murakami is officially posted by the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. He has a 45 day window to negotiate with any MLB team. If an agreement doesn't happen, he goes back Japan and plays in Nippon ...