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(Mainichi/Naotsune Umemura) TOKYO -- Japan's professional baseball team the Tokyo Yakult Swallows announced Feb. 19 that the person who performs as the club's popular mascot Tsubakuro had passed away.

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows employee whose humor and quick wit made Tsubakuro one of the most popular mascots in Japanese professional baseball has died, the team said Feb. 19. The employee had ...

Sasaki likely would have been the top overall pick in the Nippon Professional Baseball Draft. But he made the surprising jump from playing high school ball in Japan to attending an American ...

Sasaki set the Japanese high school record with 140 career home runs for Hanamaki Higashi High, the alma mater of superstar Shohei Ohtani and where Sasaki's father, Hiroshi, is head baseball coach.

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows employee who portrayed the team’s beloved mascot Tsubakuro has died, the Central League club announced on Wednesday. The team asked for privacy for the family of the ...

Stanford baseball player Rintaro Sasaki swings in the batting cage area at the Sunken Diamond baseball field at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) ...

Rintaro Sasaki certainly lived up to the yearlong hype surrounding his debut at Stanford. The slugging first baseman went 6 for 14 with two doubles and a team-best eight RBIs in three weekend wins ...

Russian Tu-95 Bomber oer the Sea of Japan. JSDF Image A pair of Russian Tu-95 bombers escorted by two Russian fighter aircraft carried out a eight-hour flight over the Sea of Okhotsk and Sea of ...

A press conference with the official naming and mascot debuts will take place later next month at the new home of Smokies Baseball, Covenant Health Park! Stick around with Living East Tennessee to ...

Japanese Major League Baseball player Yoshida Masataka of the Boston Red Sox has met the descendants of an American who is believed to have introduced baseball to Japan more than 150 years ago.