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Extractions: BASEBALL: Teams Players ... Lions Marines Swallows Tigers MARINES: Players Past Stars History Manager Ballpark 1998 Outlook Though the Marines may not look like it now, they were once a fearsome team. Originally known as the Mainichi Orions, the ball club seized the Pacific League's first pennant in 1950 and went on to defeat the Shochiku Robins in that year's Japan Series. Remaining strong from then until the early 1980s, the team has employed several players destined for Japan's Hall of Fame. Kaoru Bettoh: Playing his first two seasons with the Osaka Tigers, Kaoru Bettoh joined the the Mainichi Orions in 1950, leading the expansion franchise to a Pacific League pennant and championship in the first Japan Series. Hitting .335 and swiping 34 bases while leading the league with 43 home runs and 105 RBIs, the right-handed outfielder was an easy choice for 1950 PL Most Valuable Player. Beginning his professional career at age twenty-seven, Bettoh played from 1948-57, batting .302 with 155 home runs and 186 stolen bases. Also serving as Orions' manager (1954-59), the outfielder compiled a 467-341 record (.578 winning percentage). Bettoh was elected to Japan's Hall of Fame in 1988.
Extractions: Interaction between the two countries through baseball harkens back to the first international game between Ichiko (the First High School) and the American residents of Yokohama in 1896. But the inception of true international exchange occurred when the Waseda University baseball team traveled to the US in 1905.
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Extractions: document.write(''+''); Western Courier Extras: Student Resources Scholarships Movies Travel ... macomb.com showNetworkBanner(1); Current Issue: document.write(currentissuedayname + ', ' + currentissuemonthname + ' ' + currentissueday + ', ' + currentissueyear); var story_id = 689712; Home Sports By Eric Frey Published: Thursday, June 24, 2004 On Dec. 17, 2006, Major League Baseball will be faced with another collective bargaining agreement. Commissioner Bud Selig, as criticized as he has been, made some positive strides with the previous agreement prior to the 2002 season. Revenue sharing and the luxury tax have really helped to shape up the economic disparity among the league's teams. Revenue sharing is based on a team's local and central revenues. Money is paid and distributed in proportion to a team's distance from the average of the entire league. The funds acquired from revenue sharing are divided equally among all teams and each team is required to use the funds solely in an effort to improve the team's on-field performance. Revenue sharing is designed to assist teams who might be in a smaller market or have lower incomes and are unable to compete financially with the rest of the league. In 2003, $230 million was dispersed among the league. This season, $243 million is available, adding a little more than eight million extra dollars to each team for improvement. That's huge when considering teams who are short on the bench or in search of effective middle or long relief pitchers.
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Extractions: Topps pictured part of this team as Montreal Expos and part as Washington Nationals, both are included in this team set. The 2005 Topps Montreal Expos / Washington Nationals MLB Team Set contains 20 Expos / Nationals baseball cards including Star Players like Livan Hernandez, Jose Vidro, Tony Armas Jr. and Endy Chavez.
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Extractions: Can you write or draw? Would you rather put bamboo shoots up your fingernails than read the average sportswriter? You might have a future! Let us be your stepping stone Off-Season Capsule: AL West Jason Michael Barker Welcome to the first of six off-season capsules, each focusing on one of MLB's six divisions. Convenient how that works out, eh? We'll begin today with the American League West and then finish up in the National League five weeks from today. Teams are listed in order of finish last season. Seattle Mariners
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Extractions: A Desert's Unexpected Bloom In a Japanese version of the seventh-inning stretch, Hanshin Tigers fans released balloons during a victory over the Chunichi Dragons. (Toru Morimoto/Panos Pictures for The New York Times) (NISHINOMIYA, Japan, July 3) - It was 3:30 on a cloudless afternoon and the members of the Tigers New Era Fan Club were already assembled in the far corner of the right-field bleachers . The ragtag group of two dozen or so factory workers, shopkeepers and hangers-on were there to cheer the Hanshin Tigers, working their way through the team's fight songs even though game time was more than two hours away "We're all crazy for the Tigers," said Yoshio Morita, a 55-year-old businessman draped in a black-and-yellow Tigers happi coat. Between slugs of beer and choruses of "The Wind of Mount Rokko," the Tigers' anthem , he ran through his game-day routine , which includes driving two hours from neighboring Shiga Prefecture to get to the stadium by 9 a.m . and line up for a ticket
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Extractions: January 12, 1997 : The San Diego Padres acquire the rights to 27-year-old Japanese fireballer Hideki Irabu from the Chiba Lotte Marines. Irabu says he only wants to play for the Yankees. March 3, 1997 : For the negotiating rights to Hideki Irabu the Yankees offer the Padres a choice of one from a list of players: Brian Boehringer David Weathers , Chris Cumberland, Andy Fox , and Matt Luke . Also, one player from a list of five minor leaguers, plus $3 million. The Padres are talking to several other teams beside the Yankees.
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Extractions: YOU'VE GOTTA love Hideki Irabu. Or you gotta hate him. The first thing he showed us was that the only difference between himself and the millions of other Yankee fans who wouldn't consider playing for any other team was his agent, George Steinbrenner's desperation and a lot of press coverage. For a while we thought he might actually have the goods. If he was able enough to make the Padres, surely he could help the Yankees to another pennant. But apparently the American League batters hadn't read the stories. They hit him, hard, and thus endeth his honeymoon in the Bronx. Poor Irabu planned on becoming a legitimate star. Never did he figure on turning into a character out of professional wrestling, the foreign phenom turned greedy interloper with a guaranteed contract. What was it about Irabu that George liked so much? A chance to corner the local Asian baseball fans? (Stranger things have happened.) A person only has to look at the way Tiger Woods has galvanized the golf world to see how a baseball magnate might fancy that a multicultural marketing strategy could work miracles for our national pastime. Alas, it hasn't worked entirely for Woods, either. But it didn't really have to, since Woods was a millionaire before he even made his professional debut - quitting college and pitching for a shoe company with the first words he spoke as a professional - a wealthy man before he'd even swung a club as a member of the tour.
Extractions: (in Opinion) Matsui Heads for the Bronx: Frog, Prince or Toad? Hideki Matsui showing off his new Yankee uniform. Photo by AP. Book profile following Of course, the success of Hideo Nomo, Kazuhiro Sasaki and Ichiro Suzuki far outweigh the failure of Irabu (a good summary of Japanese and Asian major leaguers can be found at japaneseballplayers.com Taking in a Game: A History of Baseball in Asia Americans used the game as both a tool of diplomacy and espionage. During a 1934 barnstorming tour by a U.S. all-star team, catcher Moe Berg made his way to the rooftop of a Tokyo hospital and took movie film that was later used by American (not Bronx) bombers. Unfortunately
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Extractions: Other News TIME Asia TIME.com CNN Asia FORTUNE.com ... AOL.com By Alexandra A. Seno A LONG WITH ALL THOSE Marie Osmond's Bangkok-bought Boots If you're a country singer (and Marie Osmond is), you need a big hat and cowboy boots. And where's one of the best places to buy those boots? Bangkok, apparently. That's where she went shoe shopping last week. Osmond, half of the 1970s megahit TV program The Donny and Marie Show, ordered a customized pair that will probably be the talk of the country scene back home. After all, there aren't many cowboys (or cowgirls) walking around in boots made from the skins of stingrays. Osmond, 37, is touring Asia with The Sound of Music, in which she plays Maria Von Trapp. He Said What?
Extractions: Sunday, July 13, 1997 Last Thursday, New York City watched as Hideki Irabu made his stunning debut at Yankee Stadium. Hideki is the first player from Japan to wear the pinstripes, and joining the Bronx Bombers was the fulfillment of a life-long dream. Hideki could have played for any city he wanted, but he chose to play in "the house that Ruth built"and we are very glad that he did. Following weeks of anticipation, Hideki Irabu did not disappoint New Yorkers. In six and two-thirds innings, he dominated the Detroit hitters, striking out 9 players and allowing only five hits and two runs. By any standard, he gave an incredible performance, and the Yankees beat the Tigers 10 to 3. His arrival is an event of great significance for the relationship between American and International baseball, but it is of even greater significance as an example of the immigrant experience in New York City. Even though his drama played out on a much larger stage than other immigrants to our city, Hideki Irabu's choice to come to New York City echoes the same decision that people from all over the world make every day, the same choice that millions of people have made throughout New York City's history. With the courage to build a life in America comes a genuine understanding of what American opportunity and responsibility represent. Millions of immigrants over the years have come here to New York City once through Ellis Island, now through Kennedy Airport to make better lives for their children. Their lives give our city the strength of diversity, a better understanding of itself, and a better appreciation for the core principles that make our nation great.
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