Expected to be the first Japanese player elected to the Cooperstown on Tuesday, Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride and ...

Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride — like Shohei Ohtani now — and his fame across the Pacific was therapeutic as ...

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he's much more than that in Japan. Back home, he's a wellspring of national pride, ...

9. Tommy Edman wins the NLCS MVP Award Edman made history as the first American-born player to play for Korea at the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Unfortunately, Edman’s experience didn’t quite mirror ...

They were there to watch Sasaki take the ball in Tokyo, a six-hour drive south, to pitch for Samurai Japan in a World Baseball Classic game against the Czech Republic. “Watching him pitch ...

Satozaki Tomoya, who played as catcher for Lotte and for the Samurai Japan national team at the 2006 World Baseball Classic and 2008 Olympics, had this to say on his popular YouTube channel ...

The trio were teammates on the Samurai Japan team that won the gold medal in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Sasaki made global headlines for his pitches exceeding 102 mph on the radar gun before ...

“So Shotaro could really be opening up a door here.” Since Hideo Nomo in the 1990s, nearly all Japanese baseball stars became NPB greats before coming to MLB. There was never a written rule ...

The 2023 World Baseball Classic, when the baseball world at large got an up-close look at Sasaki as he won gold with Samurai Japan, further convinced Sasaki that he was best served finding a way to ...