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The Japanese Baseball Insider Use the Translator to covert Japanese sites to English. Guru's Japanese Team Pages: Select Team Bay Stars Blue Wave Buffaloes Carp Dragons Eagles Fighters Giants Hawks Lions Marines Swallows Tigers Bay Stars  Blue Wave  Buffaloes  Carp  Dragons Eagles   Fighters  Giants  Hawks  Lions  Marines Swallows  Tigers Asian Baseball Schedule: January, individual training. February and March, spring training . Late March to October, regular season. October, Playoffs and championships. November, Konami Cup Asia Series (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China) and fall training. December is the off month for professional baseball in Asia (Japan, Korea, and Taiwan). . Pro Yakyu (Japanese Baseball) TODAY'S NEWS (and news archive) Jim's Info Links - See Jim's Albright's incredible index of players, managers, teams, stats and Japanese baseball history. Japanese Data Archive - View stats and download spreadsheets. Japanese Baseball Primer - This "Introduction to Japanese Baseball" was written collaberatively by our Japanese gurus and is required reading. The Baseball Traveler - Part one: Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum The Working Agreement (pdf) - This describes the agreement between the MLB and NPB. Guru's Game: Try your hand at this Japanese baseball simulation with scads of the greatest players Japan has ever seen. Introducing the Japanese Franchise All-Stars! - FAQ / Getting Started Inside Features Jim Albright's Page (Japanese baseball history)  - See Jim's incredible index of players, managers and teams. Read articles about the history of Japanese baseball and download stats. He is also available for your questions. Gary Garland's Page (Japanese baseball) He is available for your questions. Find out what Gary knows about this years class of rookies and which impact players will migrate to the MLB. John Holway's Page (co-editor of the Japanese section of Total Baseball). He is available for your questions and posted articles right here on BaseballGuru.com that are not available anywhere else! Email Gary Garland (The Japanese Insider) Articles by Gary Garland TRIVIA TIME Whatever Language You Speak It's Baseball (China Pro League and more...) Note to MLB: There is no "Next Ichiro" Pitcher Gets Win and Save in Same Game Rubber Padding Kazuhiko Kondo The Death of Japanese Baseball Has Been Greatly Exaggerated Email Jim Albright Articles by Jim Albright Info Links -  An index of everything Jim's provided for this site, including an links to his writings about specific players and managers. Japan's Top Players - Analysis of the best Japanese baseball players ever with annotated rankings. The Rating System - Description of the systems used to rate Japan's top players. All Decade Teams - Best players by decade, with sections on each league and overall. Modern Pitchers and the Japanese Hall of Fame The List - Rank ordered list of the greatest Japanese players by position. New Pitcher Projection Method Japan's Most Successful Managers All-Time Foriegn Born Team Japan's Franchise All-Star Teams Japanese Baseball Dynasties Most Dominant/Most Dominated Teams in Japanese Baseball History Japan's Greatest Teams Manager's All-Stars Franchise Sustained Success and Futility Snapshots Why Haven’t We Had More Japanese Players in the Majors? What were the great pennant races in Japan? 2007 Review of NPB Free Agents, Posted Players, and Players to Watch 2006 Review of NPB Free Agents, Posted Players, and Players to Watch 2005 Review of NPB Free Agents, Posted Players, and Players to Watch Japanese Possibilities for the MLB in 2004 Japanese Possibilities for the MLB in 2003 The Japanese Career of Masanori Murakami Miscellaneous Player Comments Japanese Baseball before 1945 How Close is Ichiro to Cooperstown? MLB EQUIVALENTS OF NPB COOPERSTOWN CANDIDATES' TOP SEASONS MLB EQUIVALENTS OF TOP NPB PERFORMANCES Japanese Players: What's Best for Cooperstown? ~ Sadaharu Oh ~ Sadaharu Oh and Cooperstown: Part I Sadaharu Oh and Cooperstown: Part II Fun with Projections Comparing Oh to HOFers Comparing Oh to Top HOF Candidates How Many Homers Would Oh Have Hit In the Majors?HR Break Down Was Oh Better than Projection? Who Else from the NPB Might be Worthy of Cooperstown? Further Examination of Qualifications of NPB Stars for CooperstownSummarized Cases for Cooperstown of Five Great NPB Position PlayersSummarized Cases for Cooperstown of Five Great NPB Pitchers Email John Holway Articles by John B. Holway Author of ten baseball history book including, "Japan Is Big League in Thrills," the first book ever done in English on Japanese baseball, Tokyo 1954. Japanese in Cooperstown? U.S. Vs. Japan Series: 1953 History is made - 1990 Japan Prevails Oh Vs. Aaron Home Run Duel (Yoichi Nagata) Oh Vs. U.S. Big Leaguers 676 Called Shots Lefty O'Doul Lefty and the Geisha More Articles The Case for Sadaharu Oh and the Hall of Fame - Find out why he will get in! Article on mlb.com Jan, 2006: Baseball not only America's pastime Baseball Prospectus - Clay Davenport, Comparison of Japanese leagues to American Player Movement Between Japan and MLB - Wayne Graczyk, TokyoWeekender Sports Edition,  Novemeber 1999, interesting for those who haven't read it. White Sox Fan Obsessed with Ichiro - Seattle Times Take Me Out to the Bo-ru Game! - One fan's experience at a Japanese game. Visit to a Japanese Game - Dave Willard trip in 1996. Way to Go! Ichiro Suzuki (2001) joined Fred Lynn (1975) as the only players to win the Rookie of the Year and MVP awards in the same season. Japanese Baseball Official Sites Nippon Professional Baseball - The Official Japanese baseball site.  It has online Japanese baseball encyclopedia with pitching and batting records. The Japanese Hall of Fame and Museum - Online tour of the museum. Live Broadcasts Baseball on TBS - Radio coverage. Site is in Japanese. Lycos Japan - Live web casts in Japanese NHK - scheduled Major League games televised on NHK News, Stats and Biographies Japanese Baseball Daily - Gary Garland, Baseball Guru's sister site for Japanese baseball. Find stats and biographical material for every retired position player, daily news, links to related articles, and an archive of past reports. Japanesebaseball.com - Michael Westbay, Fan discussions on Pro Yakyu. Also see his previous web site Pro Yakyu Central, which has Japanese pro baseball ("yakyu") news and statistics. You'll find standings, batting and pitching leaders, as well as play-by-play summaries of Japan Series games. Sports Info Japan - Michiyo Ishida, Daily game summaries and more, including an archive from past seasons presented by a talented  reporter, interviewer and writer from Japan. Jim Allen's Japanese Baseball - Jim Allen, A guide to Japanese baseball.  History, news, scores, standings, and Japanese fantasy info. JBall - Dan Latham, Has everything. News, Teams, Players, Foreigners, Managers, Past stars, History, Ballparks, See a game, Schedule, Records, Essays, Nihongo. Latham's Guide - See a game at a Japanese park. Get tickets, maps and directions. learn how to read a Japanese scorecard. The Baseball Archive - Japanese page features results from 1995, 1996 and 1997 seasons including daily box scores. The Japan Times - Daily game summaries Mainichi Daily News - Scores and standings. Japan Today - Sports section reported in English Fantasy Sports Japan - Fantasy news and stats fr Japanese baseball. Includes Japanese fantasy baseball game. The Daily Yomiuri - Japanese newspaper offering baseball information in English. Japanese Pro Yakyu - News and box scores. Gene Bacque's Japanese Baseball Page - Chronicle of his successful baseball career in Japan. Japanese Baseball - Interviews with Bobby Valentine and Jim Allen. Nando Sports Server - League leaders and other stats updated daily. Big, Bad Baseball - An article written by Jim Albright discussing the Major League Equivalent for Japanese Baseball Players. Sadaharu Oh - Biography, Career Highlights, Stats, Pictures and Short Movie Japanese Ball Players - Daigo, Information on MLB players from Japan. Frank's Field of Dreams - Frank Lin, Information about Asian players in the U.S. majors and minors. Jeff Kusumoto's Home of Japan Baseball - Jeff Kusumoto, SABR Tokyo member site. Trivia/Fun Fun Trivia - trivia challenges for all levels of knowledge. Logo Server - Japanese baseball logos. Asian and Korean Sites The Baseball Guru "Asia and Korea" SABR's Asian Baseball Committee - Home page Marketplace Japanese Baseball Player Memorabilia – buy an autographed baseball, jersey, photo and more from Japanese players in MLB. Ebay - Buy and sell Japanese Baseball and related items. Rob's Japanese Cards - Robert Fitts, Center for Japanese baseball card collecting in English. Prestige Collectibles - Gary Engel, Japanese Baseball Cards and Memorabilia. Baseball Trips to Japan Japan Ball - Bob Bavasi, In-depth tours of Japanese Baseball and Culture Baseball Adventures - Dennis McCroskey, Play baseball and see Japan. Trips for baseball players. Japanese Baseball Mailing Lists J-Ball - Jim Albright's English speaking mailing list on Japanese baseball. It has links, data and research material on Japanese baseball not readily available elsewhere. Baseball@apple.ease.lsoft.com - Well, it's not Japanese only, but it has a preponderance of Japanese baseball enthusiasts, including our own Gary Garland. To subscribe: email Listserv@apple.ease.lsoft.com and put "subscribe baseball" as the body of your message. 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