From Oh to Ohtani and beyond: How Japanese baseball reached new heights
No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...
Not just Ohtani: Tokyo Series will showcase the depth of Japanese talent in Major League Baseball
The spotlight will be on slugger Shohei Ohtani this week when the superstar returns to Japan and leads the defending World ...
Ohtani Effect Fuels Japan’s Female Baseball Stars to Push for Pro Future
On a brisk winter day, high-school freshman Rin Saito’s cleats crunch the snow as she rubs the leather of the ball against her gray and purple uniform. With each crack of the bat, she dreams of ...
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Shohei Ohtani and four other Japanese players come home to start the MLB season
For the record, the MLB regular season consists of almost 2,500 games. But it’s much more for Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, who was born in Japan. And for Shohei Ohtani and the four other ...
Shohei Ohtani’s arrival for Tokyo Series hidden from fans hoping to catch a glimpse of Japanese star
Hundreds of fans at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, who lined up 10 deep and hoped to catch a glimpse of Shohei Ohtani as he arrived ...
'Throwing Philosopher' plans to get inside Ohtani's head in MLB opener
Shota Imanaga is known as baseball's "Throwing Philosopher" and the Chicago Cubs pitcher plans to get inside Shohei Ohtani ...
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Shohei's popularity on display everywhere you look in Japan
Just about everywhere you look in these bustling streets, there he is: cooking up spaghetti with a flourish, adeptly juggling ...
Baseball Tokyo awaits national hero Ohtani and countrymen in historic MLB opener
Masanori Murakami travelled to San Francisco 61 years ago this month on his way to becoming the first Japanese player in ...