Tsutsugo calls for revolution
Power hitters Yoshitomo Tsutsugo and Sho Nakata talk to reporters after National team practice in March 2016 at Nagoya Stadium. As a youth baseball consultant, Tsustugo is now trying to…
Ichiro, Oh and the world
Sadaharu Oh talking to reporters as Japan practiced at San Diego's Petco Park before its 2006 WBC semifinal against South Korea. Oh's story On Friday, Jan. 18, Sadaharu Oh spoke…
NPB’s most famous strike
Osamu Ino, NPB's umpiring technical committee chairman was there the day east met west. End of the experiment The plan, hatched by Central League president Hiromori Kawashima, was to prove…
Meulens beats drum for NPB
San Francisco Giants bench coach Hensley Meulens at Tokyo Dome last November. More than 20 years after he last played in Japan, current San Francisco Giants coach Hensley Meulens believes…
Tuffy Rhodes in Japan
A couple of people have responded to Tuffy Rhodes not doing better in the vote for this year's Hall of Fame vote with thoughts on the things that might be…
The one and only Ichiro
Ichiro Suzuki is many things to many people. He's funny, gregarious, warm-hearted, cool and focused. So much seems to depend on what he wants and where he wants to go.…
Tatsunami leads hit parade
Longtime second baseman Kazuyoshi Tatsunami and former Dragons ace and BayStars manager Hiroshi Gondo are two of the newest members of Japan's Hall of Fame. 2019 votes tells us hits…
On good faith
Murray, Ohtani and baseball's fugitive slave act The news that the Oakland Athletics have the option of tipping the scales their way in the pursuit of two-sport star Kyler Murray,…
Old Buffaloes club closes
The association of former Kintetsu Buffaloes players will cease activities, the organization's president, Hall of Fame pitcher Keishi Suzuki announced Saturday. "It's sad, but we decided to bring it to…
Then and now
Comparing NPB's slap-happy 2010s with the old days A while back, I wrote about the NPB ballpark experience of the early 1970s. It seems hard to imagine in Japan's relatively…
