Major League Baseball season is fully underway. Such an event might be the time when I’d point out that baseball is ...

No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...

The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.

Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later this year, reminders that some of the top talent in American baseball is ...

Topps, Populous and New Balance are all examples of baseball-connected brands that are tailoring their businesses to succeed ...

The jammed sellout at the Tokyo Dome as the Dodgers and Cubs opened their regular season had a different vibe than the usual ...

When I was a kid, it would basically have been unthinkable that Japan would have more viewers for the World Series than where baseball originated. But I’m not sure we should be so surprised.

Shohei Ohtani is arguably the most popular athlete on the planet, and that superstardom has helped rapidly accelerate MLB’s ...

Derrek Lee can still recite some of the chants that fans created to cheer on his dad during his days playing baseball in ...

But experts say there’s another undeniable reason for the reversal: the Japanese superstars who lit up the league. Big names like Ohtani and Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto have helped revitalize ...

As for his other baseball skills, Sasaki developed those in northeastern Japan. The left-handed hitter clubbed a Japanese high school record 140 career home runs at Hanamaki Higashi High School in ...