High School Baseball
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Re: High School Baseball
[ Author: Guest: null | Posted: Mar 23, 2003 5:07 AM
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I heard some website is broadcasting the high school baseball tournament live on the Internet (radio maybe even video). Does anyone know where it is? I would really love to watch/listen to some games.
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Re: High School Baseball (2)
[ Author: torakichi | Posted: Mar 24, 2003 9:45 AM
| HT Fan
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Just a thought: does HS baseball here strike anyone else except me as being rather militaristic?
Robert Whiting suggests in this old thread that "Japanese baseball" has some militaristic aspects, but to my eye, HS baseball is particularly so.
What makes me think that? Mostly the marching into the stadium, the gathering round the kantoku (caps off) between innings so he can marshall the troops, the implicit fear of breaking any rules - both the players and the supporters, and the military sound of the support songs.
I suppose that last one sort of applies to NPB as well, but I s'pose with all the practice that the school brass bands get, they're really accurate, and it gives them a military-sounding precision. They choose some weird songs, too. Yesterday, I heard Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" played to that one-two, one-two-three beat. Hilarious!
Robert Whiting suggests in this old thread that "Japanese baseball" has some militaristic aspects, but to my eye, HS baseball is particularly so.
What makes me think that? Mostly the marching into the stadium, the gathering round the kantoku (caps off) between innings so he can marshall the troops, the implicit fear of breaking any rules - both the players and the supporters, and the military sound of the support songs.
I suppose that last one sort of applies to NPB as well, but I s'pose with all the practice that the school brass bands get, they're really accurate, and it gives them a military-sounding precision. They choose some weird songs, too. Yesterday, I heard Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" played to that one-two, one-two-three beat. Hilarious!
Re: High School Baseball (2)
[ Author: Kiyoshi | Posted: May 7, 2003 2:35 AM
| HAN Fan
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The May 5, 2003 Tacoma News Tribune [Link] has an insightful article on the regimentation of Japanese private school baseball.
The highly structured, military dormitory life of the Kagoshima Jitsugyo High School baseball team is the spotlight of TNT staff writer Eijiro Kawada's story.
Kawada notes the difficult and intense road to the National High School Championship, especially touching is the players' separation from parents, family, and friends.
The highly structured, military dormitory life of the Kagoshima Jitsugyo High School baseball team is the spotlight of TNT staff writer Eijiro Kawada's story.
Kawada notes the difficult and intense road to the National High School Championship, especially touching is the players' separation from parents, family, and friends.
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In today's three games, I saw numerous boys pointing their bat straight at the pitcher and hitching up the sleeve a la Ichiro, and a few of them did the big stretch backwards as they got into their batting stance.
If you're gonna copy someone, it might as well be someone good I s'pose.