As seen in Daily Sports and Maidona News Craig Brazell (39), who played with the Hanshin Tigers through 2012, sent a message to Daily Sports. He says he has been spending his days at his home in Alabama recently due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. He has encouragement for Tigers fans as well…
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…
Daily Sports Column トレバーの虎場 version here (日本語) The Japanese version of this article is quite different, so if you can read both languages, give it a read! Some of you already know this, but I was able to land a spot on a TV show that aired last week. It was called Hello! Tsurube x…
Read in Japanese on Daily Sports / トレバーの虎場（デイリー）はこちら A couple of years back when I looked inside Beat Tamashii Shop (just outside Koshien Stadium), a poem on a t-shirt caught my eye: Every year, I have the same dream… A dream that this year is going to be the year But every year ends with…
Read the Japanese Version in Daily Sports The offseason is almost over! We can watch baseball again, Tigers fans! And for those who missed it, the team signed four new American players to the roster: infielder Justin Bour (Angels), outfielder Jerry Sands (KBO Kiwoom Heroes), and pitchers Joe Gunkel (Marlins) and Jon Edwards (Indians). They…
America started baseball. America started KFC. America popularized Christmas. America loves curses and conspiracy theories. How did all of these come over to Japan in one fowl swoop? And how do they relate to Hanshin? Read on…
Daily Sports Column (Japanese) Here デイリースポーツの日本語版はこちら As someone whose lack of athletic ability should have meant never dreaming of playing professional sports, I shifted to dreaming of reporting about sports at a pretty young age. But even that dream came to a screeching halt after a year of college. I resigned to the career that…
Daily Sports Column (Japanese) Here True Hanshin Tigers fans have had their worlds rocked no fewer than four times in the last month*. While baseball is “just a game” and we need not get too uptight or depressed over what happens on the field, we also need to remember that each guy involved with the…
Daily Sports column (in Japanese) can be seen here デイリースポーツのコラムはこちら You know, I can still remember one of the first things I was told when I arrived in Japan: “Nihongo ga jozu!” (Your Japanese is really good!) There are two ironies about this comment: (1) My Japanese was not very good at all – all…
Daily Sports column (in Japanese) can be read here So, how ’bout them Tigers? No really, how are they doing? Strange question to be asked by someone who has covered the team in-depth and detail for the past 5 seasons… but the truth of the matter is, I have not checked in on them for…