OSAKA -- Some players from a professional baseball team have admitted to gambling on an online casino, following the revelation that Orix Buffaloes pi･･･ ...

TOKYO — The business of baseball looks a little different in Japan than it does in the U.S. One of the most popular sports souvenirs? Towels. Many varieties of towels, with printed images of top ...

In 1934, an American team featuring the best baseball players in the world – Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and more – went on a barnstorming tour around Japan. More than half a million ...

The last surviving member of a storied Japanese Canadian baseball team has died at the age of 102 in Kamloops, B.C. Kaye Kaminishi was a part of the legendary Vancouver Asahi team that played in ...

The games honored Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps after they were forced to relocate during WWII. MANZANAR, Calif. — Swinging at the first pitch on a hallowed ...

Japanese baseball fans are ... while Dodgers merchandise sales are up more than 2,000% year-over-year since he signed with the team, Kawana said. Japan has a deep baseball history and is the ...

Data shows that the average length of an MLB game peaked in 2021, at 3 hours and 10 minutes. But changes like the pitch clock, instituted in 2023, are working to fix that. Last year, the average ...

Japanese baseball fans are crazy for Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers. MLB has a plan to get them to root for every team By Ian Thomas, CNBC • Published March 22, 2025 • Updated on March 22, 2025 ...

Inspired by this, Shoriki established Japan’s first professional baseball team, the Great Tokyo Baseball Club. This team toured the U.S. in 1935, playing against colleges and minor league squads. When ...

Shigeo Nagashima, a Yomiuri Giants legend who was so revered that he was known to many as “Mr. Pro Baseball” died on Tuesday morning due to pneumonia at the age of 89, according to an ...