Baseball-Tokyo Series featuring Ohtani delivers record-breaking event for MLB
Major League Baseball on Friday called this week's Tokyo Series between Japanese standout Shohei Ohtani's World Series ...
Fanatics says it had $40 million in Tokyo Series sales, higher than all major sporting events
Japan's rapidly growing interest in MLB helped Fanatics sell more merchandise than it does for events like the World Series ...
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Takeaways from Tokyo: Reliving the best of Dodgers' time in Japan
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MLB Mania Takes Over Japan as Tokyo Series Starring Ohtani Breaks Records With $40M Merch Frenzy
In a world where sports and commerce collide with the force of a Shohei Ohtani home run, one event just redefined what it ...
Shohei Ohtani came home as a national hero — and he didn’t let Japan down at the Tokyo Series
Shohei Ohtani’s every step, swing and smile were intensely followed this week during his homecoming at the Tokyo Dome, an ...
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Tokyo Series viewership up big in U.S., Japan
Tokyo Series set new league records for viewership, merchandise sales and attendance -- making it the largest standalone ...
‘Proud and honored’: Kosuke Fukudome, Cubs’ first Japanese player, reconnects with team in Tokyo
When Kosuke Fukudome thinks back to his first professional season in Japan, Major League Baseball never felt like an ...
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How two art forms, baseball and manga, became intertwined in Japan
The growing influence of the genre could be seen ahead of the Tokyo Series, when MLB announced a collaboration with Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami on a collection that featured ...
Matt Shaw Wore 1/1 MLB Debut Patch in Tokyo Series
Matt Shaw's Debut Patch will be made into an Autograph Rookie Card. The MLB season kicked off in Japan with the Cubs taking ...