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  • Coronavirus and the Olympics

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    Robert Whiting (April 2008) – Yukan Fuji When I arrived in Tokyo in 1962, working for the CIA as a 19-year-old member of the U.S. military, the city was an unsightly sprawl of ramshackle wooden houses, rickety  shanties and cheaply constructed stucco-covered buildings that had mushroomed from the wartime detritus left by American B-29 Superfortress bombers. Living conditions…

  • Billion Dollar Blueprint

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    by Robert Whiting (May 8, 2012) – Yukan Fuji Money. Money. Money. MLB is rolling in it, as indicated by the recent sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers for an astonishing $2 billion, an all time record for a major league team. The $2 billion figure is more than double the previous record for an…

  • Unfair Trade Advantage: Anti-Trust Exemption (Part 4 of 4)

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    by Robert Whiting (April 2008) – Yukan Fuji Continuing our discussion of unfair trade advantages, begun in a previous column, the basis thesis, restated, is: MLB enjoys certain benefits under US law and custom that give it a decided advantage over the NPB in competition for the international market for players and for fans. NPB…

  • Unfair Trade Advantage: Salary Deprecation Allowance (Part 3 of 4)

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    by Robert Whiting (April 2008) – Yukan Fuji Continuing our discussion of unfair trade advantages, begun in a previous column, here is the basic thesis re-stated: MLB enjoys certain benefits under US law and custom that give it a decided advantage over the NPB in competition on the international market for players and for fans.…

  • Unfair Trade Advantage: Marlins Stadium, Public Extortion (Part 2 of 4)

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    by Robert Whiting (April 2008) – Yukan Fuji The special treatment MLB teams receive can clearly be seen in the recent case of the Florida Marlins. The Florida Marlins are a baseball club that has had to play in an outdoor stadium in Miami, Marlins Stadium (also home to the NFL Miami Dolphins). For years,…

  • Unfair Trade Advantage: Stadium Subsidies (Part 1 of 4)

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    by Robert Whiting (April 2008) – Yukan Fuji MLB enjoys certain benefits under U.S. law and custom that give it a decided advantage over the NPB in competition for the international market for players and for fans. NPB teams may be poor at making money through baseball, but the gap between them and MLB teams…

  • Platelets for Breakfast

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    Yukan Fuji, 2010 – Robert Whiting Have you ever heard of platelet-rich plasma injection therapy (PRP)? Neither have I – but a lot of people in MLB have. One of them is Seattle Mariners pitcher Cliff Lee who spent the first part of the season on the disabled list recovering from a severe strain in…

  • Sayonara Hillman-san

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    2010, Yukan Fuji – Robert Whiting Hillman left Japan at the end of the 2007 season, after winning two Pacific League pennant and a Japan Series crown for the Nippon Ham Fighters, saying that five years was the maximum a man should manage a baseball team, especially if that manager was a foreigner managing a…

  • Can you speak English?

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    Ozzie Guillen, Asians and Latinos – previously unpublished in English Yukan Fuji, 2010 – Robert Whiting In a country of people with big mouths, Ozzie Guillen, the manager of the Chicago White Sox, has one of the biggest. He frequently makes the news with controversial remarks and his most recent salvo is no exception. Earlier…