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What year started?

1874

This article states 1920, but if you look at any article about any of the Japanese leagues there is nothing until the mid-30s. 76.19.173.43 16:32, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ja:日本運動協会 was formed in 1920, ja:天勝野球団 was formed in 1921. Both were disbanded in after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. Then ja:宝塚運動協会 was formed the following year, and was disbanded in 1929 (it was the only single professional team during that period, and only had non-professional opponents to play against). The next profession team wasn't formed until the mid-30's. -Pan Sola 19:17, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In the first line of the article, it states "The sport of baseball was introduced to Japan in 1872 by Horace Wilson , and he taught at the Kaisei Gakko school in Tokyo." Isn't that wording a little redundant, being that gakko (ja:学校) is the Japanese word for school? I wasn't sure if it should be changed to just Kaisei Gakko, Kaisei School, or just left alone. --24.4.6.151 (talk) 07:31, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Occasionally, a team with more total wins has lost to a team that had more ties and fewer losses and, therefore, had a slightly better winning percentage."

This needs explanation of winning percentage. Either ties are not counted as games played or ties are counted as one-half win and one game played (thus one-half loss). MLB also uses winning percentage to determine the standings. The current difference in MLB is usually to play extra games that make up the scheduled number of decisions, 162—and always to play them if that might affect playoff participation.--P64 (talk) 15:26, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

His name is mentioned at the top of the article, and then never mentioned again. --RSLxii 23:23, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A portal related to this topic, Portal:Baseball in Japan, has been nominated for deletion. Please see the discussion, at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Baseball in Japan. Thank you for your time. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 04:16, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to create paragraphs in the History section and screwed up badly. I undid my revision. But someone still needs to create paragraphs in this section. Thanks / Sorry about that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JoeDetweiler (talk • contribs) 07:17, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This article (http://mlb.si.com/2013/06/12/japan-juiced-baseballs/) from Sports Illustrated seems to indicate that the ball is now much more similar to the MLB ball compared to prior years. Does anyone have another source or more information on this? Drewbo19 (talk) 19:02, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wondering why a "Baseball in Japan" article has a section on "2 Japanese-American baseball during World War II". Japanese Americans were born in the US so their love of baseball would likely have come from America, not Japan. They were incarcerated in the US, not in Japan. This section, while interesting, seems inappropriate for their article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ponopono (talk • contribs) 18:49, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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