A Baseball and Sumo Trip Through Japan

By Paul Lukas, on June 12th, 2019%

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[Editor’s Note: Today we have an excellent guest entry from longtime reader/contributor Gordon Blau — that’s him above, with his wife, Chrysse — who’s going to tell us about his recent uni-related observations in Japan. — PL]

By Gordon Blau

Visiting Japan has long been on . . . → Read More: A Baseball and Sumo Trip Through Japan

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Artist Andy Brown Returns, for Baseball Season

By Phil Hecken, on March 17th, 2018%

By Phil Hecken Follow @PhilHecken !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);

Readers will recall a short while ago I featured artist Andy Brown, who shared his paintings and drawings from PyeongChang, Korea, during the past Winter Olympics. In the lede graf of that article, I wrote, “I was first drawn to Andy through his baseball-related paintings and sketches. . . . → Read More: Artist Andy Brown Returns, for Baseball Season

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Talkin' (Japanese) Baseball, Part II

By Phil Hecken, on September 30th, 2017%

By Phil Hecken, with Paddy Watson Follow @PhilHecken !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);

You folks may recall I had done a post a few months ago with Henry Yu on the Japanese baseball experience, and at the end of the article, I asked if any other fans wanted to share their experiences. I had a back-and-forth with . . . → Read More: Talkin’ (Japanese) Baseball, Part II

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Talkin' (Japanese) Baseball

By Phil Hecken, on July 22nd, 2017%

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Over the course of the years, I’ve followed a twitter account that goes by Sons of Johnnie LeMaster (they have a blog, although it doesn’t appear as though it’s been updated recently. But in any event, I’ve corresponded with them (him), and occasionally they (he) have contributed a ticker item or three. . . . → Read More: Talkin’ (Japanese) Baseball

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