Tag: The New York Times
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Don’t ‘Throw Until You Die’
by The New York Times Editorial Board, quoting Robert Whiting (Jul 15, 1995) — The New York Times Two decades after Commodore Matthew Perry forced Japan out of isolation in 1854, the Japanese started playing baseball. This year Hideo Nomo, the 26-year-old imported pitching star of the Los Angeles Dodgers, has emerged to remind Americans…
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The International Pastime
by Robert Whiting (Oct 2, 2004) — The New York Times Kamakura, Japan – As the Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki prepares to break one of baseball’s most durable records – George Sisler’s 257 hits in a season, set in 1920 – Americans may ask how this achievement is being viewed in his native Japan.…
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The Emperor of Swat
by Robert Whiting (Aug 9, 2007) — The New York Times SORRY, Barry Bonds. You’re still 112 home runs away from the home run record, the real record, that is. Hitting 756 dingers is certainly quite an achievement, more than anyone else has hit in Major League Baseball history. But it is far behind the…
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Season Opens as Surely as Day Follows Night
by Robert Whiting (Mar 26, 2008) — The New York Times TOKYO – If Britney Spears played baseball, you would have some idea of what the past few days were like for Daisuke Matsuzaka on his first appearance back in Japan in a Boston Red Sox uniform. Everywhere the spiky-haired former star of the Seibu…
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Japan’s No-Strike Zone – The New York Times
By Robert Whiting (10 Oct, 1994) The long baseball season is finally at an end. On Oct. 22, the two league champions will face each other in the first game of the annual best-of-seven fall classic to determine the professional baseball championship. Although tickets are all but sold out, millions of viewers will be able…
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Land of the Rising Fastball – The New York Times
by Robert Whiting (7 Oct, 1992) After six months and 162 games, the major league playoffs began last night in Atlanta. Yes, the road to the World Series is long, but the road to the Japan Series — the Asian version of the fall classic, which will begin next week — is far more arduous.…
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Japanese Put a Spin on Baseball – New York Times, Books of The Times review
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The Samurai of Summer (Wa) – The New York Times Book Review
11 June 1989 The image below can be enlarged by clicking it.
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The Pizza Connection – The New York Times review of Tokyo Underworld
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