The baseball-mad country of Japan greeted perhaps the brightest star it has ever produced with silence. When Shohei Ohtani ...

Former MLB pitcher CC Sabathia filled out a NCAA Tournament bracket and has the Vols and Crimson Tide facing each other in the Final Four. The 2009 World Series champion with the Yankees has ...

Along the way, Ohtani became the first Japanese-born player to score a regular-season run at the Tokyo Dome since former New York Yankees star Hideki Matsui in 2004. In fairness, Major League ...

CC Sabathia, the Hall of Famer known throughout his career as one of the game’s great teammates, took an almost instant dislike to Frazier on the first day of camp in 2017. (This is the same ...

“Nomo challenged the system. He opened the door for Ichiro (Suzuki) and Hideki Matsui and all these other players,” agreed Whiting. “It’s historically important. I can remember the ...

Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times Going back to the 1990s, Japanese M.L.B. stars like Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui have created buzz. But Ohtani is a different caliber player.