How the Brooklyn Dodgers’ 1956 barnstorming tour changed Japanese baseball. Posted on May 9, 2016 by J.P. Hoornstra Jackie Robinson” width=”564″ height=”423″ /> A good read from the Wall Street Journal today on how generations of Japanese baseball — up to and including Kenta Maeda‘s generation — were touched by a Brooklyn Dodgers barnstorming tour in 1956. You can read it here.
Jackie Robinson” width=”564″ height=”423″ />