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The first cracks in the system appeared in 1995, when Nomo, then 26 and one of Japan's very best pitchers, used a loophole in the archaic Japanese baseball-convention rules that enabled him to circumvent free-agent regulations. A poster boy for a new generation of restless youth fed...
One idea definitely not being entertained (though favored by this writer) is a merger with the U.S. major leagues, creating, say, a six-team Japan Division. Thus those stars who wanted to test themselves against big-league competition would not have to move all the way to North America to...
Usually, it's tough for a non-everyday player to play a leading role, but Birtwell defied that convention. Even on days when he wasn't scheduled to pitch, no one was louder with his cheers than Birtwell.
Before the Storm brings back to life a more enchanting era of American politics, one in which candidates largely said what they believed without micromanagement, “spin” was not an art form, presidential hopefuls could jump into a race a short few months before their party?...
And though the Goldwater campaign’s self-destruction in the final months of the campaign is well-documented—a series of mishaps which included Goldwater’s statement at the convention, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!?...