{"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":"

\"\"Here are some stories we’re sure that George Rose<\/strong> (Fukushima-ken, 1989-91) is following.\u00a0 George, a former JETAA NY President, currently works for the New York Yankees<\/strong> in Tokyo and previously served as Hideki Irabu’s<\/strong> interpreter.<\/em><\/p>\n

16-Year-Old Japanese Girl With Knuckleball Drafted by Professional Baseball Team<\/strong><\/a> – Apparently she was inspired to learn it from watching the Red Sox’ Time Wakefield.<\/p>\n

MLB vs. Japan:\u00a0 Tensions Over Recruiting of Young Japanese Phenom<\/strong><\/a> – George’s boss Brian Cashman is quoted in the article.\u00a0 Looks like the Yankees’ don’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

\"\"Seattle Mariners Hire Don Wakamatsu as Manager; First Asian-American to Manage in MLB<\/strong><\/a> – The article notes that Don’s father was born in a Japanese-American internment camp during WWII.\u00a0 For more on that topic, read Justin Tedaldi’s review of a documentary titled Passing Poston<\/em><\/a> in the Fall 2008 “Politics” Issue of the JETAA NY Quarterly newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here are some stories we’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’s interpreter. 16-Year-Old Japanese Girl With Knuckleball Drafted by Professional Baseball Team – Apparently she was inspired to learn it from watching […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t