Tag: time
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Baseball in Japan: Not All Cheers
by Robert Whiting (Mar 27, 2008) — Time The Americans swept into Japan and swept out. Two capacity games on two consecutive nights (44,628 on Tuesday and 44,735 on Wednesday) thrilled the baseball-mad locals as the Boston Red Sox and the Oakland A’s split their season openers in Tokyo, the third time Major League Baseball…
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Around the Horn: Interview with Ichiro
by Robert Whiting (Nov 11, 2002) — TIME Magazine TIME sent author ROBERT WHITING to find out Seattle Mariner ICHIRO SUZUKI’s take on Japan’s player drain, the future of U.S. baseball and his own hyped-up image. Robert Whiting: You were the best player in Japan when you played with Orix, yet your games were seldom…
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Books for the Beach
by Time (Jul 4, 1977) THE CHRYSANTHEMUM AND THE BAT by ROBERT WHITING 247 pages. Dodd, Mead. $10. Roger Kahn’s Season in the Sun is proof that, pace Thomas Wolfe, you can go home again-when home is a five-sided white plate. Kahn, a sportswriter whose columns appear in TIME, returned to baseball during the summer…
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Here Comes the Summer Special Section
by Time (Jul 4, 1977) Robert Whiting’s book orients the baseball enthusiast in a different manner. Some 20 years after Admiral Perry revealed Japan to the world, an American university professor taught some of his students how to play baseball. Since then, the nation has been hooked. Each year, some 12 million fans jam its…
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Time Magazine: Review of You Gotta Have Wa
14 August 1989 You can click the image below to enlarge it.
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Godzilla vs. the Americans – Time original magazine scan
28th April 2003 The images below can be enlarged by clicking them.
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Around the Horn – Time Magazine original magazine scan
18 November 2002 The images below can be enlarged by clicking on them.
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TIME: Japan As The World Sees It; Batting Out Of Their League. 2001
Japan, as the World Sees It: Batting Out Of Their League by Robert Whiting (Apr 30, 2001) Thanks to an archaic ownership system, Japanese baseball is losing its best players, its fans and its soul. When I first came to Japan back in the 1960s, Japanese professional baseball was in its heyday. It had produced,…
