In "Can We Play Professional Baseball in Japan?", we take on our biggest challenge ... a phenomenal 2nd weekend as a 20-year-old Star Wars movie takes 2nd place ...

A new documentary aims to inspire a generation of girls by showing that women can and do play baseball. Grassroots Baseball put the thesis of its co-founder’s documentary, See Her Be Her, to the test ...

When I was a kid, it would basically have been unthinkable that Japan would have more viewers for the World Series than where baseball originated. But I’m not sure we should be so surprised.

Sports and movie fans in particular will of ... know that they could play professionally one day. Japan used to have a professional women's baseball league. They're working on another one as ...

Anyone who knew the history of sports in Japan might have expected the fans in the room to reply, “Play in Nippon Professional Baseball.” ...

TOKYO — Major League Baseball’s regular season kicked off Tuesday with an opening pitch thrown from halfway around the world. The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 4-1 in the first of ...

What happens to baseball in Japan, to the country’s pro league, if the stars all leave for the United States? About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu ...

Baseball has grown far from its home in Cooperstown, New York, becoming a beloved international game. The United States and Japan are hosts to the two most popular professional baseball leagues today, ...

Shotaro Morii, 18, and Rintaro Sasaki, 19, "moved directly to American baseball," bypassing Nippon restrictions and "unwritten societal norms of playing first in Japan," said The Associated Press.

Baseball in Japan — the game is called "yakyu" (field ball) in Japanese — carries more of a rock-concert vibe than its American cousin. And with Shohei Ohtani teasing fans for a week in Tokyo ...

There are no goofy baseball montages set to John Fogerty’s “Centerfield,” just a percussive score that sounds like an encroaching modern army. Technically, Eephus is a hangout movie ...