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...wasn't always this way. Baseball has been played in Japan since the late 1800s, and the Japan League started in 1936, but before 1995 only one Japanese player had made it to the major leagues. Reliever Masanori Murakami appeared in a total of 54 games for the San Francisco Giants in 1964 and '65, and then only because his parent club sent him to the U.S. for seasoning. But in the winter of '95 Kintetsu Buffaloes pitcher Hideo Nomo and his agent, Don Nomura, exploited a loophole in the agreement between Japanese baseball and the major leagues...
...Revelation's New Jerusalem. Many colonists saw the Revolution in millennial terms, with George III as the Antichrist. Those most convinced, whom we would now call Evangelicals, helped shape the nation's culture of civic engagement, founding movements to abolish dueling, drinking, slavery and other sins. By the mid-1800s, some announced confidently that the Millennium might be a mere three years away...
...built a six-story trade center, the Koreans have opened a cultural building and the nearby Sakhalin Center now houses the American trade office and the primary expat hangout, the Pacific CafE. The foreigners are drawn by oil and natural gas. Like California during the gold rush of the 1800s, Sakhalin has attracted the world's prospectors, each hoping to mine its bounty and, in the process, turning parts of the city into a freewheeling frontier town...
...Chinese immigrants in the 1800s had no choice [but] to be laundry workers because a racist America refused to let them be much else,” wrote AAB member Aram Yang ’02 in an e-mail...
...after being briefed at last week’s meeting, Elgin said she was surprised to learn that the rule dates back to the 1800s...