How Japan Took Over Baseball

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  @よしくん-k4n · 2 years ago

  The gutsy, traditional Japanese baseball culture showcased in this video is changing. The high school that won last year's Koshien Championship adopts the principle of "enjoying baseball" and allows freedom in hairstyles as well.

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  @Gehenaus235 · 2 years ago

  I'm just some random British bloke who has never watched baseball in my life but this video is sensational

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  @eastxsidexswagg · 2 years ago

  An hour long BDE video? What did we do to deserve this blessing??

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  @bryanelder6550 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I spent the last year as a nurse talking baseball and Shohei Ohtani with a 90 year old resident. The joy he had for baseball was addictive.

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  @PineMan-Conifer · 2 years ago

  As an American who spent 3 years growing up in Nagoya Japan. Watching the Nagoya Dragon baseball team is something I will never forget. Made it onto the jumbo-tron 3 times in a game and the crowd was WILD yet respectful. Drums, chants, cheers. Great life experience.

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  @themail3079 · 2 years ago

  I'm not that into baseball, but this channel is one of the best things in sports journalism today.

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  @sootchh4055 · 2 years ago

  A factual error regarding Ohtani: he wanted to come to the MLB as soon as he graduated from high school, but the team who drafted him, Nippon Ham Fighters, persuaded him not to be too hasty. They drew up a "business plan" which would better prepare Ohtani as a pro, both as a hitter and pitcher, so he would be ready for MLB a few years later. They wanted him to succeed first in the NPB, and then send him off.

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  @jonathantomis3009 · 1 year ago

  I used to work at a hotel in Torrance California. There was a Japanese team that was visiting to play a tournament. On a day where I left work very late in the evening the entire pitching squad was out in the parking lot at around 10:00 p.m. practicing mechanics with their manager. Unbelievable dedication!

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  @daylight4449 · 2 years ago

  As someone who has played in the Japanese little league for a few years I can attest that these Japanese little league teams are insane. My team didn't personally practice more than a few hours a week, and it showed. Against the Japanese teams, our team was absolutely horrible and once got a game called in the 3 inning because we were losing 27 to 3, even though most of our players were at least a few years older than most of the other team. They just had an ungodly ability to make hard contact, and their pitching was leaps and bounds above anything I had seen before. Japanese little league is no joke.

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  @dmdeester · 2 years ago

  Jimmy Dugan: &quot;There&apos;s no CRYING in baseball!!!&quot;<br>Japanese Baseball manager: &quot;There IS crying in baseball!!!&quot;

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  @joshlewis575 · 2 years ago

  Could u imagine &quot;big boss&quot; rolling into Dodger Stadium on the hovercraft. The opposing team would be so butt hurt. &nbsp;The atmosphere of Japanese baseball is sick!!

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  @FGPR01BrunoCauz · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m a Taiwanese student attending college in the US. When my American friends found out I was so into baseball, such an &quot;American sport,&quot; they were surprised. It blew their mind when I told them baseball is the single biggest sport in Taiwan and the fan base for the national team especially is insane. During every international tournaments or exhibition games the entire island rallies behind the team, and even non-baseball fans get super into it. It&apos;s the same way for a lot of these countries in the WBC and I really wish more american fans can gain an understanding of that. This is how we elevate the sport and make the market way way way bigger

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