Along with the new uniforms, Yakult have also unveiled their “team slogan” for 2009. For those that don’t know, Japanese baseball teams all have a new slogan each year for. . . for. . . well I don’t know why. Some gems from the Swallows recent past include: 2001: Speed & Power 2002: Data + [...]
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows have “premiered” their shiny new uniforms for the coming 2009 season. Though they last changed uniforms not so long ago as part of the “Tokyo” name-change, they’ve decided to make another switch, this time in some ways more radical than the last. In 2006, the change was more of a refinement, [...]
Atsuya Furuta. Putting aside the great man’s iconic status as the face of the Yakult Swallows since the early ’90s during the most successful period in their history, he was a damn good ballplayer. Two time Central League and Japan Series MVP, ten time golden-glove recipient, only the second catcher of all-time (and 32nd player [...]
Dicky as a Swallow It seems that former Swallows starter Dicky Gonzalez has signed for the Yomiuri Giants for the coming season. The chunky Puerto Rican has signed a one year contract worth a mere 30 million yen, a huge pay cut from the 120 million he was drawing in each of his last two years [...]
On the evening of Saturday, January 17th, a bevvy of Japan bloggers – folks writing in and/or about all aspects of the broad topic of Japan – will be getting together to catch-up, meet for the first time, etc. There will be food and drink. So far, nearly 40 people have replied to the notices [...]
