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August 2024

Time Machine: Olympic baseball big in Japan
This story originally ran in the Japanese newspaper Yukan Fuji in 2021.
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NPB players making bid for more rights
CALIFORNIA — In late July, Tony Clark, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, visited Japan to announce support for…
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Superstition in baseball is universal
CALIFORNIA — American baseball players are notoriously superstitious.
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Time Machine: Marveling at Tokyo in the run-up to the 2020 Olympics
This story originally ran in the Japanese newspaper Yukan Fuji in 2018.
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Billy Bean, former MLB player and gay rights activist, dies at 60
CALIFORNIA — Billy Bean has died.
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Bob's Bullets - Road trip to Chicago
CHICAGO — Greetings from Chicago, home of the Chicago Cubs, the American version of the Hanshin Tigers — a second-city team that is always a bridesmaid…
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The high school boys of summer take the field again for Koshien
CALIFORNIA — Here we go again.
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July 2024

Time Machine: Marvin Miller and the Hall of Fame
This story originally ran in the Japanese newspaper Yukan Fuji in 2019.
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Interpreting a tough job on either side of the Pacific
TOKYO — I read with interest stories about the firing — excuse me “dismissal” to be more precise — of the interpreter Toy Matsushita, the translator for…
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Wall Street Journal Book Review: ‘In the Service of the Shogun’ An Englishman in Japan
Written by Robert Whiting
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