Oakland Athletics' catcher Kurt Suzuki (Photo by Chris Young/AP) Asahi.com, an English division of The Asahi Shimbun, had 7-part series on “Major Leaguer Baseball players and coaches with ties to Japan” this spring. Excellent writtings by Daisuke Yoshihara and Naofumi Murakami. Some samples from the series. Part 1 Oakland Athletics’ Japanese-American catcher Kurt Suzuki Oakland [...]
Kenichi Zenimura is in between Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, in 1927 Nisei Baseball Research Project has started its campain to nominate Kenichi Zenimura, the Father of Japanese American Baseball, for the National Baseball Hall of Fame Buck O’Neil Lifetime Achievement Award. (Press Reliese about nominations being accepted) Nominations for the award must be submitted [...]
NOTE See updated list here: I’ve been collecting information off- and on-line about baseball players who made it to the Majors of Japanese ancestry background. It has been tough because there is no record for of half- or quarter- Japanese, but it has been a very interesting process. Recently at a convention, I met very [...]
Some random links that is pretty awesome: Reading A Century of Japanese American Baseball by Gary T. Otake in nikkeiheritage.org inspired me to look those up below: MLB Players By Country – Japan from ESPN MLB.com has Major League Baseball Historical Stats Famous First Foreign Born Baseball Players Japan Masanori Murakami 09-01-1964 San Francisco Giants [...]
JapaneseBallPlayers.com is a unique bilingual* website that provide information, news and stats for MLB players from Japan. This is a blog, written by Daigo Fujiwara, who created the website over 10 years ago.