Koji Gotoh?

I've been unable to find my paper Player Meikan for a couple of weeks now. So I visited each of the teams' sites and browsed through their staff pages. Unfortunately, I was unable to find Gotoh-san on any of them. So if he is still involved with baseball over here, it's with commentating and/or writing.

Wish I could have been of more help.

According to Wikipedia in Japanese, he's now the first manager of the Niigata Albirex Baseball Club in the Hokushinetsu Baseball Challenge League, which was launched this year as a new independent baseball league.

Thank you for your your help. It is appreciated very much.

Can anyone please forward me a website or any information on Niigata Albirex baseball team? I'd like to follow one my friends who now plays for the team, Hiroki Inaba.

Any information about where I can get an update or information would be very, very helpful, and thank you in advance.

Edwin~

Here [in Japanese] is the Niigata Albirex Baseball website.

Here is the official site for the Hokushinetsu Baseball Challenge League to which the Niigata Albirex are a member. [Both sites are only available in Japanese.] It appears that Inaba Hiroki was recently signed as they don't yet have a picture of him. Furthermore, he isn't yet listed as having played in a game on the league batting table, so I'd say that there isn't any news on Inaba-senshu to report quite yet.

On a related note, weather permitting, I hope to head up to Nagano this weekend to see the Shinano Grandserows vs. Toyama Thunderbirds. (The fourth team in the league is the Ishikawa Million Stars.)

I'm curious to know how much interest there is for the Kokushinetsu and Shikoku Island leagues? That is, do I want to go to Nagano with the plan to just enjoy baseball? Or do I want to seek out representatives to let them know that many English speakers are interested in the league as well?