Back home, he's a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani ... fan Ichiro started playing baseball at age 7 on a Little League team near Nagoya in central Japan. Sure, baseball is ...

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Japan’s first club to participate in a Caribbean Series, Japan Breeze, was much more competitive in its second game on Sunday ...

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Back home, he’s a wellspring of national pride ... playing baseball at age 7 on a Little League team near Nagoya in central Japan. Sure, baseball is baseball, but the culture around the game ...

Japan completed its unbeaten run in the ... The tournament features the top 12 national baseball teams as determined by the World Baseball Softball Confederation's ranking system at the end ...

Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country's confidence in a period of national ... team near Nagoya in central Japan. Sure ...