Former Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman and now current Spanish-language radio broadcast analyst Luis Cruz had a brief but ...

Roki Sasaki is the next Japanese superstar ready to make his presence known in the MLB next season, and all 30 teams in the ...

Gosuke Katoh announced on Instagram that he has retired as a player and has joined the Jays front office. No job title has ...

This was for Japan’s Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, and Kanno came back with a ball signed by Ohtani. “When I put the ball with Ohtani’s autograph in my salon, the customers were very happy ...

Days after announcing his retirement, Gosuke Katoh revealed that he has taken a job in the Blue Jays front office.

Travelers who stay at the hotel inside the Es Con Field Hokkaido stadium can watch baseball games from their rooms or while ...

A win for the baseball superstar’s Los Angeles Dodgers “will be seen as a victory for Japanese baseball and the Japanese ...

He threw a 99-mph fastball as an 18-year-old. After high school, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters selected him with the first pick of the 2012 NPB Draft. He played for five years in the NPB ...

Ohtani was attracting attention from US teams even before he had graduated from high school but he announced in October 2012 that he would join the unfashionable Nippon-Ham Fighters, in Hokkaido ...

In Shohei Ohtani's hometown in Japan, now colored Dodger blue for the World Series, a superfan's shrine covers the baseball ...

This was for Japan’s Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, and Kanno came back with a ball signed by Ohtani. “When I put the ball with Ohtani’s autograph in my salon, the customers were very happy to see it,” ...

The collecting began innocently when Kanno attended a baseball game on May 23, 2013 — the first professional game in which Ohtani batted and pitched. This was for Japan’s Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, ...