An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
As you’ve probably read, Yomiuri clinched the CL title tonight at Jingu. Now, as painful as that may have been, I can accept it. We gifted them our two best players in the off-season through sheer tight-fistedness, and they capitalise on sucking the life out of all the other teams as usual and win their [...]
For years now, fans, reporters, and officials of Japanese professional baseball have been fretting over the damage – real and potential – that the globalization of the sport is doing to Japan’s professional clubs. While fans on both sides of the Pacific have been pleased to see the success of Nomo, Ichiro, Matsui, Matsuzaka, Okajima, [...]
