Source: Hanshin Official Note: Javy Guerra speaks Spanish as his native language, so his answers are essentially an English translation of the Japanese interpretation of his original answer. There may be slight discrepancies between what he said and what I have written here. ―Please tell us how you’re feeling right now. JG: I’m happy to…
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay welcome special guest, researcher and author Chris Hood. We first bring you up to speed with team news, and then hear more from Chris about his past in Japan, his interest in the Tigers, and what it is like cheering for the team from the UK. Here is a link to…
From the Daily Sports Online column / デイリースポーツオンラインの連載コラムから This offseason, just like so many in the past, has left baseball fans pining for the return of their favorite pastime. At the same time, two of Japan’s most hallowed playing grounds were converted into a different surface for one game that would determine a different sort…
This is the team’s first spring training in Okinawa as defending champions! It is interesting to see which players are going full throttle from the start, and which will take things a bit more slowly at the second squad camp. Read on for tentative schedules and rosters for both camps, which are approximately 30 minutes…
Soon after I became a Hanshin Tigers fan in 2014, I received a bit of a challenge from one of the H-TEN followers: Read a Japanese book about the team and write a report about it on your website. My reward was that he was to buy a beer the next time we went to…