Posts Tagged ‘baseball’
Seven intriguing attractions for baseball fans
If you’re a baseball aficionado, it might be time to explore the sport at a few intriguing but under-the-radar destinations. Here are seven less well-known places where you can experience the history and wonder of baseball.
The ultimate baseball road trip
The summer road trip season is in full swing in the United States. So is baseball season. This is, therefore, a great time to combine these two American passions and plan a baseball road trip. Not just a jaunt to see a few games and stadiums, but a journey that enables you to explore the history of the sport [...]
American baseball in Japan
Baseball season begins today, with a season-opening game in Tokyo between the Boston Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics. For American fans of these teams, the season begins at the ungodly hour of somewhere between 3 a.m. (West coast) and 6 a.m. (East coast). Still, it’s always an exciting day for fans, and the Japanese twist [...]
Baseball, poetry and Nicaragua
I came across an interesting recent blog entry on Blog Critics Magazine in which Terence Clarke reminisced about a two-decade-old journey to Nicaragua and what he learned about that country and its love affair with baseball. “Baseball is a poem,” my companion said. I looked out the bus window….My companion’s sentiment was similar to one [...]
Winter baseball in the Caribbean
Winter is baseball season in the Caribbean and Latin America. According to this report in the Christian Science Monitor, that makes it an excellent time for a trip to that region, where the game is often played for the sheer joy of it. Baseball season isn’t over; in fact, it’s just begun – in Latin [...]
Cheering on the Red Sox in Rome
The Red Sox won the World Series! That’s big news in our house and we watched all of the Series games. But what is a sports fan to do when a long-planned trip abroad happens to conflict with your favorite team’s playoff run? Alexandra Pecci just wrote an article for the Boston Globe that describes the [...]
Baseball goes international
It’s opening day for baseball season in the United States. Every newspaper just did some form of a preseason preview and a few of them used the occasion to discuss the internationalization of baseball, particularly with more Japanese players now joining a large contingent of Latin Americans on team rosters. The Hartfourd Courant looked at the [...]
Japanese respect comes to American baseball
The Japanese are known to have a polite and respectful culture. When two people bow in greeting, the younger or lower ranking individual traditionally bows lower. This week, even the world of American baseball glimpsed an example of this formality. I was amused to see this Boston Globe article, which describes the first on-field meeting between Yankees [...]
Japanese culture and U.S. baseball madness
Well, I wrote about a Japanese topic yesterday, but it’s hard not to post about the surge of interest in Daisuke Matsuzaka. In case you haven’t heard, this Japanese baseball star agreed to a contract yesterday with the Boston Red Sox and a recent search at Google News turned up nearly 2,000 media articles about the signing. This [...]
A passion for baseball in Taiwan
The sport of baseball has long been popular in Japan and in many Caribbean and Latin American nations. Now a passion for baseball is growing rapidly in Taiwan, mostly due to the success of one player, Yankees pitcher Chien-Ming Wang. The most popular number on shirts here these days is 40, the number on pitcher Chien-Ming [...]
Baseball in Japan
Ever wondered what baseball games are like in Japan? Bob Woods has the story in an account he wrote for Continental Magazine. He writes about both the cultural features of the sport… Although the first pitch was scheduled for 1 p.m., the Fighters and the visiting Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles had been warming up since [...]
Spring, baseball and culture
Well, here goes. How does one start a new blog? What is an appropriate first entry? The first day of spring seems like a good time to launch a new venture, and the advent of baseball season is a sure sign of spring, so why not begin with a post about baseball and culture? Jayson Stark [...]
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