Tag: yukanfuji
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Unfair Trade Advantage: Stadium Subsidies (Part 1 of 4)
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…
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Platelets for Breakfast
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…
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Sayonara Hillman-san
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…
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Can you speak English?
Ozzie Guillen, Asians and Latinos – previously unpublished in English Yukan Fuji, 2010 – Robert Whiting In a country of people with big mouths, Ozzie Guillen, the manager of the Chicago White Sox, has one of the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…
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