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In Japan, the tradition is to avoid conflict and argument. It's not like in America where you have that public to-and-fro. Generally the more famous you are the more tight-lipped you are. You don't want any controversy, you don't want it to reflect on your team-mates, your organisation or sponsors. Individualism is a very valued thing in the West, not in Japan. Here, harmony is the most important thing.
Robert Whiting, author of 'Tokyo Junkie'
PSA for the PBBC, June 30, 2021
PSA for the PBBC, June 30, 2021
Headnote: One of the thing I like about the Pandemic Baseball Book Club is that it’s a kind of “one stop shopping.” Instead of posting about various authors, projects, and events, all I’m doing here is cutting and pasting their weekly newsletter. Do take a moment to read the author Q&A. I find them particularly interesting as they discuss the arduous process of bringing their projects to…
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PSA for the PBBC, June 30, 2021
PSA for the PBBC, June 30, 2021
Headnote: One of the thing I like about the Pandemic Baseball Book Club is that it’s a kind of “one stop shopping.” Instead of posting about various authors, projects, and events, all I’m doing here is cutting and pasting their weekly newsletter. Do take a moment to read the author Q&A. I find them particularly interesting as they discuss the arduous process of bringing their projects to…
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Done! Perfect supplementary reading to Jake Adelstein's brilliant Tokyo Vice.
Japanese baseball then and then
Japanese baseball then and then
Two pieces from Kris Kosaka in The Japan Times on the “national game there and here.
First he tells us about Robert Fitts’ new biography on Masanori Murakami, the first baseball player from Japan to play for a Major League team in the U.S. when he appeared for the San Francisco Giants in 1965.
Then we have a piece on Robert Whiting’s You Gotta Have Wa, which Kosaka considers “the definitive text…
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The Baseball Bookshelf Almanac, April 29
The Baseball Bookshelf Almanac, April 29
On this date
1936: The first professional baseball game played in the Japanese Baseball League. Nagoya defeats Dai Tokyo, 8 – 5.
You Gotta Have Wa*
Sayonara Home Run!: The Art of the Japanese Baseball Card*
Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game (Writing Baseball)
Born this date
1947: Tom House, pitcher
The Jock’s Itch: The Fast-Track Private World of the Professional…
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