‘This is baseball country’: MLB season gets underway in Japan as national hero Shohei Ohtani inspires Dodgers’ win over Cubs
Baseball fever swept through Tokyo on Tuesday as the MLB season got underway, offering fans a rare opportunity to glimpse ...
‘Paint Japan blue’: How the Dodgers’ vision of Japanese prominence became reality
Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are all Dodgers. And a Japanese fan base has coalesced around its interest ...
From Oh to Ohtani and beyond: How Japanese baseball reached new heights
No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...
Historic Baseball Stadium Covered in Snow Hours Before Dodgers-Cubs
The Tokyo Dome, which opened in 1988 and can seat between 42,000 and 57,000 patrons, can be seen getting blanketed in snow ...
In Japan, Shohei Ohtani Is a National Hero and Marketer’s Dream
Major League Baseball has had no shortage of stars, but it has never seen a sensation like Ohtani, who is Japan’s answer to ...
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On Dodgers' Japan trip, Shohei Ohtani is everywhere and nowhere
I have seen an image of Shohei Ohtani, wearing jeans and a white T-shirt, gazing out from a vending machine while standing in ...
How Japanese superstars are helping to revitalize baseball
Japanese players Shohei Ohtani and Shota Imanaga are transforming Major League Baseball and its fans — and the future of the ...
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Dodgers’ Tokyo Series trip confirms the team’s ‘overwhelming’ hold on Japan
With the Dodgers scheduled to play a Saturday exhibition contest against the Tokyo Dome’s normal tenant, the Yomuiri Giants ...
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Cubs vs. Dodgers in Japan: Remembering a barnstorming tour by U.S. players in 1934
Philip Fong/Getty Share Only four active baseball stadiums remain where Babe ... at all levels from high school to the professional leagues. It became Japan’s national game and most popular ...
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is thrilled to go home to Japan wearing Dodger blue
Yoshinobu Yamamoto will take the mound in his native Japan on Tuesday as part of the MLB season opener between the Los ...