Is Ichiro bashing heating up among the Mariners? Why is Daisuke Matsuzaka so surprisingly underrated? Even after winning the World Baseball Classic, is Japan still at the level of the major league's second division? Uehara, Kawakami, Tazawa: who will perform well? Is the MLB Japan division plan secretly underway? Who is the surprising person rumored to be the first Japanese manager in the major leagues? This masterpiece essay by R. Whiting, who has followed baseball in Japan and the United States for many years, reveals the truth about baseball that the Japanese media doesn't report.
Table of Contents ▪ How will things turn out?! Dice-K's 2009 ▪ Barack Obama and MLB ▪ Torrey's book Introducing A-Rod ▪ Obama's "Change" be in MLB? ▪ CC Sabathia is the new Godzilla! ▪ 13 rules to prevent groupie troubles! ▪ Uehara and Baltimore, ▪ Kawakami Norinobu and Atlanta [and more] ⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾ ボブさんの誰にも書けないベースボール事件簿
Robert Whiting is a best-selling author and journalist who has written several successful books on contemporary Japanese culture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W...
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