After a seven-year MLB career Gail Hopkins joined the Carp in 1975 helping the team to its first Central League title. I had the pleasure...

In October 2003, I had the pleasure of interviewing former Carp manager Takeshi Koba before an oldtimers' game at Tokyo Dome. Koba played...

Kobe, Japan in 1871 In 2022 Japanese baseball celebrated its official 150th birthday. Most officials and historians date the introduction...

2025 is the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima Carp. To mark the occasion I decided to interview Americans who have played for the Carp...

While researching my latest book, The Pioneers of Japanese American Baseball, I uncovered this intriguing story. Bigotry towards Japanese...

William Watkins aka Naga aka Big Chief Harry Saisho had a problem. He wanted to transform his Los Angeles-based Japanese Base Ball...

I'm often asked if I know the uniform numbers of the 1934 All American team that toured the Far East so I decided to post them here. 1...

Presented at the 2020 Virtual SABR Conference, this 16 minutes powerpoint video tells the story of how Tetsusaburo "Tom" Uyeda played on...

The history of early Japanese American baseball is still being discovered. There is so much we do not know. Mainstream, English-language...

The first Japanese professional baseball game took place not in Tokyo, not in Osaka, or even in Japan, but in a tiny town in Northeastern...

Last week my wife and I were lucky enough to get tickets to the Hiroshima Carp's final home game. We sat in the right field bleachers...

Hanshin Tiger Great Gene Bacque passed away this week. In this memory I am reposting his story that I published in remembering Japanese...

Brooklyn Dodger and Kintetsu Buffaloes pitcher Glenn Mickens passed away on July 9 2019. In 2003 I had the pleasure of interviewing Glenn...