Gloops, a Japanese social application provider that develops and operates social applications for mobile phones, has been named the title sponsor for Japan Opening Series 2012. Major League Baseball will open its season in Tokyo, Japan for the fourth time when the Oakland Athletics take on the Seattle Mariners in the Gloops Japan Opening Series 2012, a two-game series March 28 and 29.
The game of baseball and its fans were the true and only winners, as NPB (the japanese Major Leagues) Samurai Japan played a CPBL (Chinese Taipei professional league) All Star team for the charity game at the Tokyo Dome this past weekend. CPBL players and officials said they were honored to participate, and thankful for the chance of showing solidarity to the japanese people for the continuing relief and recovery efforts.
Samurai Japan (an All Star team of the NPB, the Japanese Major Leagues) beat the All Stars of the CPBL (the professional League in Chinese Taipei) 9-2 in a charity game played Saturday 3/10 at the Tokyo Dome in front of a 35,505 fans in attendance. The game was meant as a fundraiser for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. A total of 12,000 tickets were give to residents from disaster struck areas.
The new Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) Commissioner Hwang Jenn-Tai, along with his Secretary-General Liang Kung-Pin(known as Brady), are realistic about the work ahead, but also have set a number of goals.
IBAF President Riccardo Fraccari visited the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum of Japan together with Vice President Kazu Tawa.
Baseball fans and players will see the message of the IBAF and the Baseball Federation of Japan that supports the campaign to bring back baseball to the Olympics on the giant scoreboard of the TokyoDome during the 2 charity matches on March 10.
The Tokyo Dome hosts on Saturday March 10 the East Japan Earthquake Relief Baseball Match. All Star Teams from the Japanese Major Leagues (NPB) and of the Professional League of Chinese Taipei (CPBL) will compete on the field starting 6.25 pm Tokyo time.
SAITAMA, Japan – On March 3 and 4, the Women’s Baseball Association Japan hosted tryouts in Saitama Prefecture for the V IBAF Women’s Baseball World Cup in Edmonton, Canada, Aug. 10-19, and 24 players were selected which will be reduced to 18 – 20 eventually to form the IBAF roster.
Doctor Hwang Jenn Tai has been elected on March 5th as the new Commissioner of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). As the new Commissioner, Doctor Hwang named Liang Kung Pin (Brady) as the new Secretary General of the Organization.
When Ichiro Suzuki showed up at the Seattle Mariners training facility in Arizona in February 2001, most people thought he didn’t belong there.
