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Keeping time with Korea Beat

September 12th, 2007 · 5 Comments

When Nathan Schwartzman started his site Korea Beat earlier this year it’s obvious he didn’t have anything fancy in mind. The layout is simple, as are the intentions; straight-no-chaser translations of Korean newspaper articles.
Raised in none other than Cooperstown, New York, home of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, Schwarzman is a big baseball fan. This translates into […]

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Death Sphere: Google’s Language Tools Not Yet Baseball Ready

September 12th, 2007 · Comments Off

Our quest to bring you the most up to date in baseball statistics from the Japanese, Taiwanese, and Korean leagues often brings us to sites that, um, push the limits of our language abilities. One example of this is a Japanese page of 2005 Leaders from the Central League, and in a lazy […]

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