One minor correction, Japan was into baseball long before the post WWII US occupation. It was taught and spread in Japan in the late q9th century by American Christian missionaries, and there were famous baseball exhibitions in Japan in which even Babe Ruth participated. I suggest reading the story of Moe Berg the Jewish American major league baseball player who spied for the United States on Japan on one such baseball tour in the 1930's and provided many of the targets used in the bombing Tokyo in WWII. It's an amazing story of baseball in Japan and this American hero who was a Jewish baseball player and Princeton grad.
I really didn’t know that, although I did know that golf became popular among the Japanese elite - somewhere I read that Yoko Ono’s father was an enthusiastic golfer.
I’ve heard of Moe Berg - a book called THE CATCHER WAS A SPY was written about him.
One minor correction, Japan was into baseball long before the post WWII US occupation. It was taught and spread in Japan in the late q9th century by American Christian missionaries, and there were famous baseball exhibitions in Japan in which even Babe Ruth participated. I suggest reading the story of Moe Berg the Jewish American major league baseball player who spied for the United States on Japan on one such baseball tour in the 1930's and provided many of the targets used in the bombing Tokyo in WWII. It's an amazing story of baseball in Japan and this American hero who was a Jewish baseball player and Princeton grad.
Thanks - I stand corrected.
I really didn’t know that, although I did know that golf became popular among the Japanese elite - somewhere I read that Yoko Ono’s father was an enthusiastic golfer.
I’ve heard of Moe Berg - a book called THE CATCHER WAS A SPY was written about him.