Category: International
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Podcast Episode: Uriko
Pip: Baseball Purist covers the game from every angle — and today that includes a corner of Japanese ballpark culture that’s equal parts fascinating and uncomfortable. Mara: We’re looking at the uriko, Japan’s beer vendors, and what that tradition reveals about the game’s culture. Let’s start with who the uriko are and what the job…
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Uriko
One of the most famous marketing slogans is “sex sells“. We would not normally equate that slogan with baseball, but perhaps that saying does have some truth when it comes to Japanese baseball or more precisely the selling of beer at ballgames. In our last post titled Baseball Across the Pacific: Japan and Korea’s Professional Baseball…
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Baseball Across the Pacific: Japan and Korea’s Professional Baseball Leagues
By Bill Coleman The Stage: Two Nations, One Passion Baseball in Asia isn’t just a sport—it’s a cultural performance. In both Japan and South Korea, the game thrives at the highest professional level through two elite leagues: Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and South Korea’s Korea Baseball Organization (KBO). While both share deep roots in…
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Brazilians and Baseball?
When one thinks of Brazil, you did not think of baseball. Of course, the one and only sport for the vast majority of Brazilians is football (soccer for us Americans). Baseball on the other hand is not even a thought for many Brazilians, except for a small minority of the population. Despite the lack of…
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Singapore Major Leaguer
It was never our intention, prior to creating Baseball Purist, to spend all of our time focusing on the ills of the current game, in terms of the most recent rule changes. If that were the case, then this blog would simply be too negative. Instead, we will spend posts such as this one to…