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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