{"id":1566,"date":"2008-11-20T15:29:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T15:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2008-11-20T15:29:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T15:29:51","slug":"japanese-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/20\/japanese-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.postchronicle.com\/images\/articles\/teen-girl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"189\" \/>Here are some stories we&#8217;re sure that <strong>George Rose<\/strong> (Fukushima-ken, 1989-91) is following.\u00a0 George, a former JETAA NY President, currently works for the <strong>New York Yankees<\/strong> in Tokyo and previously served as <strong>Hideki Irabu&#8217;s<\/strong> interpreter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gBpFii0FqnxrAq034O6AB-P1viJwD94HN14O0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>16-Year-Old Japanese Girl With Knuckleball Drafted by Professional Baseball Team<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Apparently she was inspired to learn it from watching the Red Sox&#8217; Time Wakefield.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/11\/19\/sports\/PITCHER.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MLB vs. Japan:\u00a0 Tensions Over Recruiting of Young Japanese Phenom<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; George&#8217;s boss Brian Cashman is quoted in the article.\u00a0 Looks like the Yankees&#8217; don&#8217;t want to ruffle their relationship with the Yomiuri Giants and also recognize the benefit of other teams not signing this guy to pitch against them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/20\/sports\/baseball\/20base.html?ref=baseball\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.daylife.com\/imageserve\/05G0ddx8OlgkG\/340x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"162\" \/><strong>Seattle Mariners Hire Don Wakamatsu as Manager; First Asian-American to Manage in MLB<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; The article notes that Don&#8217;s father was born in a Japanese-American internment camp during WWII.\u00a0 For more on that topic, read Justin Tedaldi&#8217;s review of a documentary titled <a href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/quarterly-newsletter-latest-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Passing Poston<\/em><\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/quarterly-newsletter-latest-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fall 2008 &#8220;Politics&#8221; Issue of the JETAA NY Quarterly newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/seattle.mariners.mlb.com\/images\/2008\/11\/19\/5xcoFwah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"139\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some stories we&#8217;re sure that George Rose (Fukushima-ken, 1989-91) is following.\u00a0 George, a former JETAA NY President, currently works for the New York Yankees in Tokyo and previously served as Hideki Irabu&#8217;s interpreter. 16-Year-Old Japanese Girl With Knuckleball Drafted by Professional Baseball Team &#8211; Apparently she was inspired to learn it from watching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,26,45,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-celebrity","category-networking","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-pg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}