Hello Kitty as a Chunichi Dragon baseball player. Nagoya’s team in the Nippon Professional baseball league.
The American Baseball Player.
Japan loves baseball. The longer you live there the more you realize how crazy they are for the sport. Team logos are seen everywhere and the players endorse all sorts of products. Their advertisements can be seen everywhere from the insides of the trains I take, to the sides of the buildings I walk by. It?s part of the daily TV news, and on the back of every newspaper. The Nippon Professional Baseball League is the second most popular sports league in the world (based on yearly attendance). It has a higher per game attendance than both American hockey (NHL) and basketball (NBA). They have a high school baseball tournament in Japan that?s bigger than the NCAA college basketball tournament. This is not just a March madness thing either, this tournament actually happens twice a year. This is a country that dominates the World Baseball Classic and The Little League World Series. Japan loves baseball. So Japan loves baseball, and I love Japan. But does Japan love me playing baseball"
Baseball to the casual observer is a game where you throw the ball, hit the ball, and catch the ball. But the people who are into it know that it’s like playing a chess game with athletes as your pieces. A slow moving strategic battle centered around the tracking of an 80 mile an hour ball that is hard as a rock. Jozwiak Park in my hometown o...