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(YouTube link) Japanese baseball is as open to weird promotions as the US Major League. However, you won’t see a movie tie-in this creepy over here. I hope. On Wednesday, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (no kidding) invited the ghost character Sadako Yamamura, hair and all, from the horror movie Ring to throw out the opening [...]
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The Texas Rangers want Dirk Nowitzki to throw out a first pitch at the World Series. Major League Baseball doesn’t. Because the league office must approve World Series first-pitch assignments, the Dallas Mavericks’ star won’t see th... Read Post

There are no ties in baseball. Except in Japan. After the a devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami hit Japan in March of 2011, the Nippon Professional Baseball League, the country’s best, put in place a rule whereby no inning ... Read Post

One of the great team names in all of pro sports belongs to the Japanese baseball team, the Nippon Ham Fighters. Sadly for them, they really do have a pig-related battle on their hands, as two players and a coach... ... Read Post