#japanese baseball

[jailhouse41]

Takeshi Kitano (北野武) Scanned from Zatarebijon (ザテレビジョン) 1984 Nov 16. Caption reads "Beat Takeshi was named MVP with 2 hits and 2 stolen bases".

[warpwoof]

Sadaharu Oh

And in combat I learned to give up combat. I learned in fact, there were no enemies. An opponent was someone whose strength joined to yours and created a certain result. My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: that at the heart of all things is love. We are, each of us, one with the universe that surrounds us - in harmony with it, not in conspiracy against it. To live by being in harmony with what surrounds you is to be reminded that every end is followed by a new beginning - and that the humblest of life’s offerings is as treasured as the greatest...

[littlehornedoak]

Another student baseball request!

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[baseballsisco]

Man to be in Japan right now watching this NLDS Game 5. Yu Darvish vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Oh, and a guy named Shohei Ohtani is playing as well.

[blonde-bomber]

[312cards]

Minoru Murayama, 1967 Kabaya-Leaf via TampaBayCards.

[screaming-for-eternally]

[gummyartstradingcards]

[clara-the-cat]

Sometimes I completely forget that Japan has baseball.

Sadako, the female ghost from The Ring, appearing at a japanese baseball game between the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and Yakult Swallows.

[lovelric]

rooting for your success!

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[rifki16]

hey just read your post about "living with him."

japan is notoriously obsessed with baseball. they have other sports, obviously but for the collective majority, it's all about baseball.

hahahah okay, thank you for the clarification !

[littlehornedoak]

student request

[belmont87]

Sugoi 😃

6 years ago, Shohei Ohtani hit a home run ball that went through the roof of Tokyo Dome.

[13thgenfilm]

On Thursday, May 25th, the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco will host an evening of clips and conversation with three award-winning Bay Area women documentary filmmakers - Abby Ginzberg, Emily Cohen Ibañez, and Yuriko Gamo Romer.

Tickets & details: 👉 https://bit.ly/3VXwFYL

Yuriko will discuss BASEBALL BEHIND BARBED WIRE, a documentary short carved out of the DIAMOND DIPLOMACY project that tells the story of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans, through the uncommon yet popular lens of baseball, America’s national pastime. You can learn more about the short film project here: 👉 https://bit.ly/3O9QyK7

Abby Ginzburg is a consulting producer for BASEBALL BEHIND BARBED WIRE and 13th Gen's Marc Smolowitz is a producer of both BASEBALL BEHIND BARBED WIRE and DIAMOND DIPLOMACY.

This program has two types of tickets available: in-person and online-only. Pre-register to receive a link to the live-stream event.

[baseballisabunchofweirdmen]

People should probably stop saying the very arrogant American assumption that Japanese baseball players are unproven (Japan has one of the most impressive, popular baseball leagues in the world).

Sometimes players who are good regress or have their peak seasons early in their career. When it happens in America this is generally accepted as obvious. When someone from Japan or the KBO is signed for "big" money it shows they were unproven and couldn't handle the mighty American leagues.

There's a word for it, but sports fans would go crazy if it was said so. It's silly. How about that?