South Korean baseball successfully achieved its fifth consecutive championship (連覇) at the Asian Games, but the biggest topic ...

A Korean-Japanese slugger known as Hit Machine, he was one of Japanese baseball’s greatest hitters in a career that lasted more than 20 years.

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan has written 41 books and more than 25,000 articles about baseball. For more than a century, baseball has built a bridge ...

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When Shohei Ohtani struck out Mike Trout for the final out in a 3-2 victory over the U.S. during the 2023 championship game, it gave Japan its third WBC title in five tournaments. To simply say that ...

Shohei Ohtani played an extra month of baseball in both 2024 and 2025 as his Los Angeles Dodgers made back-to-back championship runs, but he is all in for some more action in March. Ohtani committed ...

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Translation from Japanese to English: Play ball! Baseball has long been the national pastime in the United States, but it's Japan that has dominated the sport on a global level at the World Baseball ...