Tag: sports
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The 100 pitch limit mistake – Yukan Fuji
By Robert Whiting (2019) It’s been 44 years since the first so-called Tommy John surgical procedure, which occurred September 25, 1974, and, according to the popular website 538, half of the recorded surgeries have occurred in the nearly six and a half years since April 1, 2012. Why is that? Some American commentators say that the…
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Valentine’s Way: book review – Yukan Fuji
By Robert Whiting (2021) Bobby Valentine, the former manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines, has published a memoir, with some interesting observations about Japan in it, among other things. The memoir covers Valentine’s covers his entire career as player, manager and media personality that started in 1969 when Valentine was a star high school athlete…
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Shohei, Boog and Big Mac
By Robert Whiting YUKAN FUJI (2018) ESPN analytics whiz Sam Miller did an extensive evaluation of Shohei Ohtani, 2018 Rookie of the Year, as a batter and came to the conclusion that the MLB player most like is former Baltimore Orioles slugger Boog Powell, Powell, 6’3” 235 pounds in the prime of his playing days, was a line drive hitting first baseman who averaged 30…
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Wall-to-wall coverage of Shohei Ohtani is more than justified
By Robert Whiting – October 28, 2024 It’s impossible to live in Japan and not know who Shohei Ohtani is. The baseball star of the Los Angeles Dodgers dominates the media. His in-game exploits usually occupy the front page of Japan’s ubiquitous sports dailies, whose combined circulation runs in the millions. Most of the time…
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The Chrysanthemum and the – what? And The making of ‘The Chrysanthemum and the Bat’
by Tom Chapman (Jul 10, 1977), Tokyo Weekender Early Fall – and the excitement and tension of baseball pennant races occupy the thoughts of fans of the ancient and honorable sport wherever it’s played. And especially in Japan with the almost fanatical adventure of Yomiuri Giants’ slugging hero Sadaharu Oh approaching, tying and finally last…
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Lost in Translation (II) – Sports Illustrated original magazine scan
6 June 2005 The image below can be enlarged by clicking it.
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Lost in Translation – Sports Illustrated original magazine scan
22nd March 2004 The images below can be enlarged by clicking them.
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Bowed But Never Bloodied – Sports Illustrated, original magazine scan
17 May 1976 The images below can be enlarged by clicking them.
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