Yeah, I had no idea either.
Yankees outfielder Johnny Damon is best known to New Yorkers as the player who parted ways with the team’s dreaded rival the Boston Red Sox to sign with the Bronx Bombers in 2005. While his Japanese and Taiwanese teammates Hideki Matsui and Chien Ming Wang garner all the attention from […]

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I had no idea Terrmel Sledge was half-Korean. Here I am, debating whether Sledge’s recent signing with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters was worth a write up for not. Suddenly, it absolutely is.
I’ve always like Sledge, mostly because of his potential. Well, really, there’s never been much else and as you’ll read here, it’s led him to […]

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It wasn’t long ago that the very idea for this?blog was hatched in the bleachers of?Giants/Marlins game in San Francisco. Two men, talking about their lives in Asia, enjoying a beer after missing Barry Bonds’s 754th HR by seconds.
A video came up on the stadium screen concerning outfielder Dave Roberts, talking about his Japanese mother.?Neither […]

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