Baseball

Baseball is the traditional sport in Japan. In 1872, baseball was introduced in the first time in Japan by Horace Wilson who taught at the kaisei in Tokyo. The first team baseball in Japan is Shimbashi Athletic Club. It was created by Hiroshi Hiraoka, who studied engineering in the United States, and his co-worker friends. Hiroshi was a person that introduced the baseball game to his co-workers in 1878 at the Japan'a national railways. The first university that started playing that the sport took hold in Japanese culture was Tokyo university. In 1896, the team from tokyo university defeated to an American team that came from the Yokohama country and Athletic club 29 to 4. It was the first game of baseball in Asia. Baseball started spread throughout quickly in Japan after that competition. There are two leagues in Japan, the Central and Pacific leagues. The professional association is called Nippon Professional baseball in Japan. The professional baseball game in Japan began in the April, and it took 8 months for one season of the baseball competition. Big-eeg is the biggest stadium of baseball in Japan. It can enter more 56,000 people in the stadium.

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