The San Francisco Giants became baseball’s world champion in 2010, as they beat the Texas Rangers behind the young pitching of Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain and Madison Bumgarner. Little known fact is that Game 5 winner Tim Lincecum is part Filipino. I just came across this info, I thought I’d post it here… in the [...]
I’ve been involved with the the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Boston Chapter (if you have facebook, please “Like” the link!) as a member volunteer and organizing an event this coming Saturday. So I sent out a email notice to my friends about it, and a friend send me a message: Nooo!!!! Did you [...]
Apparently in Japan, you can watch highlights of MLB baseball games on YouTube. The URL for MLB.jp channel is youtube.com/mlbglobal, but when accessed from US, you get “This channel is not available in your country.” Bummer. Of course, there are ways, but you didn’t hear that from me. ;) Speaking of YouTube and Japanese baseball, [...]
[Note: For my baseball related thoughts, see blog.japaneseballplayers.com. This article is also on there. Thank you, Patrick Newman of NPB Tracker for linking to this post!] Boy, those West-coast late night games are tough. Especially the Red Sox are notorious for long games (as Bill Simmons of ESPN points out, in first 101 games of [...]
Today is MLB ALl-Star game. My man Ichiro Suzuki have now made it to the All Star 10 years in the row. He is just amazing. I read somewhere that Ichiro and Jeter tandem have never lost a All-Star game. Anyway, here is my favorite image of all time, courtesy of whitehouse photography!
Kenichi Zenimura is in between Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, in 1927 Nisei Baseball Research Project has started its campain to nominate Kenichi Zenimura, the Father of Japanese American Baseball, for the National Baseball Hall of Fame Buck O’Neil Lifetime Achievement Award. (Press Reliese about nominations being accepted) Nominations for the award must be submitted [...]
NBA Finals is on between Boston Celtics and LA Lakers. I noticed that it seems every time Red Sox win the game, Celtics seems to lose and when Red Sox loses, Celtics wins. I had to look it up. And here it is. I was right except for the first game. Game 1 6/3 Celts [...]
There is an awesome Japanese Baseball blog called Yakyu Baka, which is updated daily and with bunch of great information. I noticed couple of articles about Japanese “Knuckleball Princess” Eri Yoshida on WSJ and NYTimes and posted a link on my facebook/twitter acounts, (follow me at @DaigoFuji for English and @DaigoRedSox for Japanese) but Gen [...]
“You gotta have Wa” (one of my favorite book of all time) author Robert Whiting has just concluded crazy 4-part series about how once-super-popular Bobby Valentine was almost jettisoned from Chiba Lotte Marines, on Japan Times online. Part 1: Clandestine campaign led to Valentine’s demise Part 2: Valentine’s philosophy brought Marines glory, money Part 3: [...]
I was inspired by Boston Globe’s Chad Finn’s posting on Extra Bases blog called Some interesting numbers via Bill James , and decided to look up what the projections of Japanese players for the year 2010 from the 2010 edition of the Bill James Handbook. According to James and his company, Ichiro will make History [...]
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