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Dodgers, Cubs have rich histories of Japanese players
The next stop on MLB’s World Tour is here, and it's awfully fitting. The Dodgers and Cubs open the 2025 season in the Tokyo ...
Ohtani and the Dodgers keep the Cubs and their rich history in the shadows in Japan
Chicago Cubs fans take pride in being underdogs, a role that ended briefly when they won the World Series in 2016 to end a ...
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What's the future of baseball in Japan as the best players leave for MLB?
TOKYO — Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of ...
Japanese baseball fans are crazy for Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers. MLB has a plan to get them to root for every team
Shohei Ohtani is arguably the most popular athlete on the planet, and that superstardom has helped rapidly accelerate MLB’s ...
MLB is trying to expand in Japan. Can Japan’s NPB grow in America?
Japanese baseball has a rich history, but a series of structural factors stand in the way of it becoming a phenomenon in ...
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What's the future of baseball in Japan as the best players leave for MLB?
Yamamoto signed a $325 million, 12-year deal last offseason and was asked a few weeks ago at spring training in Arizona if the loss of great players could hurt Japanese baseball. “That’s a ...
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What’s the future of baseball in Japan as the best players leave for MLB?
Yamamoto signed a $325 million, 12-year deal last offseason and was asked a few weeks ago at spring training in Arizona if the loss of great players could hurt Japanese baseball. “That’s a ...