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 Send your question or announcement
to me (Dan Latham) and I'll post it on
this page for everyone else to read.
Notices:
A
great follower of Japan's major leagues seeks trading
partners for collecting and trading memorabilia from
Japanese baseball. Main interests include cards,
programs/media guides, pocket schedules and apparel
(would kill for a couple of t-shirts with team logos!).
Have limited Japanese items to trade but have huge
resource of items from the U.S. to offer.
Thank you and regards.
Donald Thompson
Huntsville, Alabama, USA
(June 19, 1998)
I've been trying to locate Japanese
baseball merchandise -- either online or in a store in
the northeast section of the US -- but have failed
miserably so far. Any ideas? Actually I did find an
online company selling Japanese hats -- Minor Leagues, Major Dreams. Unfortunately, all they sell are
hats for the Yomiuri Giants, Yakult Swallows and Hanshin
Tigers.
Thanks,
JD Wilson
USA
(June 16, 1998)
If you don't have any other
Japanese baseball mailing lists included in your page
could you add this subscribe info for a mailing list I
created?
j-ball-subscribe@makelist.com
I decided to start it after finding
your Swallows page and discovering the lack of other
pages that were in English. I want it to be a place for
people like me to talk about Japanese baseball teams and
whatever else anyone wants to!
There really aren't that many
people on the list yet. Hopefully we can generate some
interest! It's open to anyone that is crazy enough to be
on it.
As for how I got interested in
Japanese baseball during a particularly boring Cubs game
my brother told me about a time he saw a baseball card
from Japan. I went to Yahoo and went to town.
Unfortunately there wasn't much. Luckily I found your
page. I read through it and it just seemed interesting.
It's not a glamorous story but it worked for me!
If you know of any other English
sites could you pass them along? It's slim pickins out
there!
Ryan Szekeres
USA
(June 16, 1998)
Dan:
Excellent web site you've set up. As a long-time fan of
Japanese baseball, your site is the most complete
English-language compilation of information I've come
across. Well done.
For the past 2 years, I've
participated in Japanese Fantasy Baseball leagues through
Internet registration and trades. This year, however, the
web site appears dead (i.e., not updated since 1996!).
Even though the season has started, do you know of any
Japanese fantasy BB sites that are available on-line?
Also, do you know where Japanese
baseball souvenirs (particularly hats and trading cards)
can be ordered and purchased? Perhaps you can recommend a
web-site or print publication?
Thanks,
David Lihani
USA
(June 11, 1998)
This Japanese baseball site has
helped me to find out more info on Mark Acre, a player I
have been trying to find for a while now. Thank you so
much. Now I know I can never make a trip to Japan so I
can just forget that, but... do you guys have a way of
making a video tape of the games and offering it for
sale? I wish I could order games with Acre in them. I
have been a Oakland A's follower and I remember him,
McGwire and Canseco so well because they are all larger
than life! I wish there was a way to purchase tapes of
the games since we can't get them on satellite or since I
can't get way over there to see the games. Well, if you
can't do this at least I tried, right? Thank you so much.
W.
C.
Baseball2@webtv.net
(May 28, 1998)
Hi there
Latham-san, Dan, did
you ever see Pro Yakyu team-by-team statistics published
regularly on the WWW by anybody. I've asked the same
question to Michael Westbay, and he said he'd never seen
anything. I know a couple of web sites with good stats, Internet
Fan Club and Japanese Pro-Baseball Information:
BI-Office, but
even they don't go beyond box scores. As I can see, the
Japanese put a slightly lesser emphasis on player's stats
(than in America), team comes first.
I'm a Toronto Blue Jays fan from
Moscow, Russia. But thanks to Michael Westbay's site [Japan Pro Yakyu This Week] and that of yours I'm getting
interested in Japanese baseball more and more. I hope to
learn some Japanese through Pro Yakyu (your kanji list is
really helpful), the same way as I've been mastering my
English through American baseball. I'm following Seibu
and Hiroshima. By the way, if you would like to know
anything about Russian baseball, please visit my Russian League Baseball site. Though there's mostly
statistical information. Best regards,
Sergei Borisov, Russian League statistician
Moscow,
Russia
(5-8-98)
There is a very slow-loading (at
least from the US) Hanshin Tigers site in English. (Hansin Tigers as the author puts it). It doesn't
have a lot of info, but it's something.
Bob
Timmermann,
South Pasadena, CA
(5-6-98)
I am a Yomiuri Giants fan living in
Ohio. When I was in college I traded a Colorado football
jacket for a Giants cap and have been a big fan ever
since. I wonder if there is anywhere or anyone out there
who could keep me up to date on the Giants news and notes
or if there was any way to get in touch with a Giants fan
living in Japan to converse with and follow the Giants.
If you know of anyone who is interested pass along my
e-mail. I really do enjoy your web site and hit it a
least twice a week and explore a different area each
time. Thanks for the good work.
Marc Robinson,
Fairborn, OH
(5-5-98)
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