Robert Whiting on the state of Japanese baseball

[1908]

Robert Whiting is the best-selling author of my three favorite books on Japanese baseball -- The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa and The Meaning of Ichiro. If you're curious about baseball across the Pacific, I can't recommend them enough.

 

Whiting recently wrote a four-part series for The Japan Times on Japanese baseball that I just finished. I really enjoyed it so I figured I'd share.

 

Part I -- Is the MLB destroying Japan's national pastime?

 

Part II -- Foreign managers change face of Japanese game

 

Part III -- NPB needs major reform, vision to prosper like MLB

 

Part IV -- NPB players in need of strong union like MLBPA

[CubinNY]

All four articles were outstanding. This kind of got buried. Thanks 1908.