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Toreba no Toraba: Free Water for All!

Toreba no Toraba: Free Water for All!

From H-TEN’s Daily Sports Online column / デイリースポーツの連載コラムから The Hanshin Tigers are at long last able to play at home again! While I love the national high school tournament held every August, I do not love what it forces my team to do: play 20+ straight games on unfamiliar, unfriendly soil (artificial though it may…

Toreba no Toraba: Meeting an NPB Player in my Hometown

Toreba no Toraba: Meeting an NPB Player in my Hometown

From our Daily Sports Online monthly column / デイリースポーツオンラインの連載コラムから This is the story of a Canadian living in Japan interviewing a Taiwanese baseball star who plays indy-league ball in America. Japanese is not the native tongue of either participant, but was the lingua franca in their conversation and even in the minds of both the…