About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the World Series champion Los ...

No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...

Topps, Populous and New Balance are all examples of baseball-connected brands that are tailoring their businesses to succeed ...

Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese ...

Derrek Lee can still recite some of the chants that fans created to cheer on his dad during his days playing baseball in ...

Major League Baseball’s regular season kicked off on Tuesday with an opening pitch thrown from halfway around the world.

Readers of the Los Angeles Times give their thoughts and opinions on Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers as well as USC, UCLA and ...

Professional baseball across the Pacific has a history that also involves Hawaiʻi. Before former Cubs outfielder Kosuke ...

with its top league, Nippon Professional Baseball, drawing nearly 27 million attendees last year. Yet players like Shohei Ohtani have become major stars in the U.S., and others are bypassing NPB ...

In general, Japanese players stay nine seasons before ... countries are developing — and ultimately coming to Major League Baseball or wherever — that’s good for that local league and ...

There are many paths to a career in professional sports, and Micah Yonamine has certainly carved his own journey.