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Baseball

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

JAPAN

BASEBALL

FACTS

  • Since 1958 Japanese professional baseball has had 12 teams evenly devidied into 2 leagues
  • In 2005 the leguaes agreed to a partition of the season in which inter league play would take place
  • Baseball is probably the most popular sport in japan
  • In japan baseball is called yakyu
  • The first official Japanese team was formed in 1878, six years after American Horace Wilson brought the sport from the United States

TOP 9 MLB PLAYERS FROM JAPAN

  • Ichiro Suzuki
  • Hideki Matsui
  • Hideo Nomo
  • Yu Darvish
  • Koji Uehara

MORE MLB PLAYERS

  • Tomo Ohka
  • Daisuke Matsuzaka
  • Kazuhirp Sasaki
  • Shigetoshi Hasegawa

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