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Baseball

Baseball, Life in Japan, Osaka
Koshien
09.17.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I went to see the mighty Hanshin Tigers baseball team on Friday. They’d won all of their last 10 games and were top of their league. Naturally I was there and they lost. We were in the best seats I have ever been in. Right in the home run zone in the noisy section close [...]
Baseball
Lotte boycott
02.13.06 | Permalink | 4 Comments

After last season`s Hanshin Tigers baseball team`s loss to the Lotte Marines, I decided to boycott all products made by the Korean sweet maker and Marines` sponsor Lotte. This boycott came to an abrupt halt this morning when a teacher at the elementary school I teach at offered me two chocolate Lotte cookies. I ate [...]
Baseball
Baseball terminology
11.20.05 | Permalink | 1 Comment

People often complain about the inpenetrability of cricket and its terminology but I am struck by the language used in baseball – a game I once took as inpenetrable and confusing itself. Being only able to watch it in England late at night and seeing seemingly illegal throw after illegal throw permitted it was not [...]
Baseball, Misc, Photo
Hanshin Cat
10.27.05 | Permalink | Comment?

The mighty Hanshin Tigers baseball team after losing the first two games in the Japan Series 10-2 and 10-1 lost the third and fourth games in the seven match series to the Lotte Marines. I am quite devastated and I`m never chewing any Korean Lotte gum again. In commiseration, I present not quite the Hanshin [...]
Baseball, Life in Japan
Hanshin Tigers 2005 Victory
09.29.05 | Permalink | Comment?

The very mighty Hanshin Tigers Baseball Team have just won the 2005 Japanese League in their 70th anniversary year by beating their hated rivals the Tokyo Giants. Here`s a picture of the yet mightier team member Akahoshi. They did this by overcoming the curse of Colonel Sanders described in the Mainichi News below: Hanshin’s winning [...]