Tag: yankees
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Adjustment – Yukan Fuji
By Robert Whiting (2014) Playing baseball in a foreign country is not an easy thing to do. There are a lot of adjustments that must be made. In the case of foreigners playing in Japan, the adjustment is to longer spring camps, harder training, and a wider strike zone during games. For pitchers, it is…
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The Last Stand of Kei Igawa – Yukan Fuji
By Robert Whiting (2011) There should be a picture of Kei Igawa in the dictionary under “persistence.” Since signing a five-year, $20 million contract in 2007 with the New York Yankees (who paid another $26 million to the Hanshin Tigers of the Central League for the right to negotiate with the team’s left-handed ace), Igawa…
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Whither Hideki Matsui? – Yukan Fuji
By Robert Whiting (2009) The more one thinks about the accomplishments of Hideki Matsui in the World Series, the more remarkable they become. Not only did he win the MVP with a performance of power that put him in the pantheon of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle and Reggie Jackson, he also accomplished something that a…
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Remembering Hideki Irabu – Yukan Fuji
By Robert Whiting (2011) Hideki Irabu, once considered to be one of the best pitchers in the world, has died as most of you know by now. He led a troubled life and his time in major league baseball was marked by turmoil. But he also had an historic impact on U.S.-Japan baseball relations and…
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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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Godzilla vs. the Americans – Time original magazine scan
28th April 2003 The images below can be enlarged by clicking them.
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