Major League Baseball season is fully underway. Such an event might be the time when I’d point out that baseball is ...

Shohei Ohtani is arguably the most popular athlete on the planet, and that superstardom has helped rapidly accelerate MLB’s ...

The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.

Many Americans see baseball as a sport for men and softball as a sport for women. It wasn’t always this way in the US – and ...

Nippon Professional Baseball teams want university graduate rookies ... U.S. college baseball after finishing high school in Japan. He does have extraordinary power but has yet to perfect his ...

All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known ...

well-known among Japanese baseball fans. To celebrate the launch, TV commercials have been airing across Japan since March 18, and advertisements in the home stadiums of 12 teams, including Tokyo ...

Japan has a deep baseball history and is the ... Leiner said that does lead to the fandom of teams that Japanese players played on, and that does stick over time — for example, there is a ...

The league sees a trove of fan interest and cash to be unlocked in Japan, a country long obsessed with baseball that has ... does the league’s fate rest with star players and their individual teams?

In 1934, an American team featuring the best baseball players in ... “He raised awareness of MLB in Japan with his success and performance. “There may not have been a whole bunch of Japanese ...