SAGA, Japan -- A professional baseball club stocked with Southeast Asian players, who make up around 70% of the team, has taken the field, competing i ...

Eri Yoshida was drafted this week to be Japan's first female professional baseball player, taking the field with the Kobe 9 Cruise in an independent league that starts its inaugural season in April.

ALAMEDA — Some still refer to baseball as our national pastime. In Japan, it’s more than that. Yes, Japanese professional baseball has a big following. So does high school baseball. The ...

Los Angeles Dodgers' Tommy Edman, from top left, Shohei Ohtani (17) and manager Dave Roberts stand on the field before an MLB Japan Series exhibition baseball game against the Hanshin Tigers ...

Tyrone Woods (Min Chang-ki's Japanese baseball) is the best power heater in Japanese professional baseball history, with frequent out-of-the-field home runs after crossing the back screen. 35m.

Still from Koshien: Japan’s Field of Dreams “It’s an example of a general rule applied to the entire team, all players have to do X. You’ll notice in the film that almost all the players ...

About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. They came up through Nippon Professional Baseball and ...

Los Angeles Dodgers' Tommy Edman, from top left, Shohei Ohtani (17) and manager Dave Roberts stand on the field before an MLB Japan Series exhibition baseball game against the Hanshin Tigers ...