OLYMPIA SEAMAN WHO STOPPED ICHIKO’S 1896 BASEBALL TRIUMPHS IDENTIFIED AFTER 120 YEARS
CHURCH WAS NOT SO-CALLED EX-PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER HIRAM CHURCH BUT 18-YEAR OLD ERNEST FISHER CHURCH FROM RHODE ISLAND
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LEGENDARY 1896 YC&AC vs. ICHIKO BASEBALL GAMES
Four simple games of baseball 120 years ago opened way to brilliant future for baseball in Japan.
ORIGINS OF BASEBALL IN JAPAN AND YC&AC’S BASEBALL SECTION
The evidence that the first baseball club in Japan was not the Shimbashi Athletic Clud allegedly founded by Hiroshi Hiraoka in 1878 but the Yokohama Base Ball Club and not the Shimbashi Athletic Club!