Last year, the Hanshin Tigers dominated the all-star fan voting results… in fact, only one position player from other teams got chosen to play on the big stage! I wonder if, given that this team won the Japan Series last year, things will be the same again this year! Here are your instructions (plus links)…
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 Ever feel like you didn’t belong somewhere? Like you were way out of your league? I bet the young Hanshin Tigers players are feeling just that as they head to spring training. I mean, they are standing alongside the champions of Nippon Professional Baseball and trying to…
Saturday, December 2. Just a three-minute walk south of Hanshin Amagasaki Station is a building that was once Kaimei Elementary School. On the first floor at the end of the hall (literally the same hallway they used when it was a school) is Nanairo Cafe – a fairly basic place where people can sit and…
The last couple of days have really blown the summer heat out of Japan. But that’s not the “cool” I’m talking about here. It’s the experiences I’ve been a part of. First of all, dearly departing Yoshio Itoi put out a “contest” of sorts on his Twitter account and was giving away signed retirement towels….
As the regular season quickly approaches (Opening Day is March 26!), we have been made aware of a few opportunities you have to get involved in. First and most appealing (to me) is a film viewing and panel discussion being sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ). As a non-member (which I…
Most people you talk to about 2020 will say it sucked. I will not disagree with them, but for me personally, it has been a year of (mostly positive) change. Gone are the days of just letting time go by without any progress being made. I read an excellent book that has changed my outlook…
Source: デイリースポーツ トレバーの虎場 Go away, COVID-19! You’ve kept baseball away from us long enough, already! It’s bad enough that you scared us with Shintaro Fujinami and friends, plus ex-coach Atsushi Kataoka. But to keep us baseball fans in limbo this long… well, that’s just cruel. (Not to mention millions of infections worldwide.) As a Hanshin…
Japanese presentation about the Hanshin Tigers for a group of fans? Check. Hanshin Tigers proficiency test (expert level) with little preparation? Check. How to cap off the weekend? Easy. Fulfill one of the rewards of the H-TEN Kickstarter Campaign: a day at Koshien with T-Ray. One kind soul, Mr. Stephen Greene (CEO of RockCorps), generously…
The presentation went smoothly, and immediately afterwards, Jake and I recorded Episode 85 of the podcast. (Props to Jake, who had barely been back in Japan for 24 hours when I dragged him to this event, asked him to record the podcast with me and even nagged him to mix the sound for it afterwards!)…
I’m back in the swing of things, at long last! It has been a pretty hectic two months, which has meant very little in the way of new posts on the site. I’d apologize for it, except that I feel like I deserved the time off from closely following and reporting on the Tigers games…