articles about Japanese baseball history
This is not about baseball, but about culture and history, so if that ain’t your gig, please skip this. I won’t be offended.
Every country has a problem with history, and I thought it might be instructive to see how Japan and the United States deal with the skeletons that remain in their closets.
Continue reading Unteachable truthsIn 1950, Makoto Kozuru was in the right place at the right time. A speedy slugger, Kozuru was in the prime of his career at the age of 27 when, a year after Japanese pro ball shrank its strike zone and introduced its first machine-made ball, it split into two leagues and expanded from eight teams to 15.
Continue reading There was a season
