Japanese Baseball Baseball is probably the most popular sport in Japan. In Japan baseball is called Yakyu. The game of baseball was introduced from the United States during the early Meiji period. Horace Wilson is the man who gets the credit for starting baseball in Japan. Horace Wilson was an American professor of English at a Tokyo university. ...
The year 2012 was a year unlike any in baseball history. Rising stars such as Mike Trout and Stephen Strasburg burst onto the scene with their MVP-caliber play "drawing early comparisons to legendary greats Mickey Mantle and Nolan Ryan. It was a year of rebirth for baseball and the Baltimore Orioles who clinched their first playoff spot in fifteen years. It was also a year of dominance, as Miguel Cabrera became the first player to hit for the Triple Crown in 45 years. Yet, in this great year of play, baseball experienced something that caused many critics and followers to re-look the hi...
In the past 25 years, major league baseball has gone through a so-called steroid era. More and more popular names of the sport have been caught cheating by using performance enhancing drugs. Of these cheating players, the most popular have been: Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, and Sammy Sosa. Many argue that these cheaters should not be recognized and inducted into the Hall of Fame, despite their outstanding career numbers. On the contrary, people like MLB Commissioner Bud Selig argue that the feats reached by players, with or without the use of performance-enhancing drugs, are rema...
Think back to when sports were just plain fun and you could play all day, and you were good at every game, too. You were 10. It still sounds the same out there on the field.... Hey, batter, batter.... It's still fun, and when it's muddy, it's even more fun. ...
