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...Team Thesis' and my roommates," said Peter T. Lattman '92. "They let me do my [thesis] work while they played Nintendo all night...
PERFECT, THAT IS, only for those interested in keeping baseball in Seattle. Despite lip service to the contrary, local ownership has never been a priority for Major League baseball, as was demonstrated again in the flap created by Minoru Arakawa's nationality. He and the potential investor--Nintendo, owned by his father-in-law--are Japanese...
Japanese purchase of the Mariners would violate an agreement made by Major League owners last year banning more than a certain percentage of foreign investment. If Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent's comments on the Nintendo bid are any indication, this misguided rule is likely to be upheld...
...recent weeks, George F. Will and other columnists have portrayed the Nintendo bid as another Japanese threat to American society. In the current xenophobic climate, it should surprise no one that baseball is being brandished as a point of no return in some sort of domino theory of Japanese investment...
...group of investors led by Minoru Arakawa, president of Nintendo of America, made an offer last week to buy the Seattle Mariners baseball team. Cars and baseball are items located near the center of the American psyche and folklore. To see them symbolically under threat from the Japanese caused unusual resentment and distress to some Americans, especially after they have watched the Japanese buy heavily into Hollywood and Rockefeller Center. The distress was illogical sometimes: Arakawa has lived in the Seattle area for 15 years and has promised to keep the team there, while the competing bidder, a group...