“He was much more than baseball. It was the culture of baseball ... He recently pitched to a teenage Japanese women's All-Star team, throwing a complete game at the Tokyo Dome.

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Best things to do in metro Phoenix this month include the WM Phoenix Open, a hoop-dancing championship and an international ...

(Japan has the No. 1 ranked women’s team.) Alvarez says the most recent tryout for the national team was the best display of women’s baseball talent she’s ever seen. She’s hopeful the WPBL ...

and Women’s Basketball for Sports Illustrated’s ‘On SI’ sites. He holds an MFA degree in creative writing from the University of San Francisco, where he also played Division 1 baseball for ...

Comeback Falls Short As Japan Defeats Team USA, 11-6 After a memorable run in the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Women’s Baseball World Cup Finals, Team USA suffered its first and only ...

I think you'll find there was plenty to celebrate. 10. Japan wins its seventh consecutive Women’s Baseball World Cup gold medal Japan is the No. 1 baseball nation in the world according to WBSC ...

Japanese baseball stars have almost exclusively come to MLB after playing in NPB. Morii is breaking precedent by signing with the A's.

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s ...

Major League Fishing (MLF) partners with Eisaku Kato to launch MLF Japan Kasumi BMC Series in 2025. Learn how this expansion ...

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he is much more than that at home in Japan TOKYO -- Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he's much more than that in Japan. Back home, he's a wellspring of ...