In my last column, I wrote about my visit to the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame & Museum. The purpose of my visit was to see the...

The American novelist I consider to be the most knowledgeable about Major League Baseball is Paul Auster, who passed away in 2024 at the...

The Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1960s had two great pitchers, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale. The Dodgers won three league championships...

In 1998, Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" began to be played at the end of games at Fenway Park, the home stadium of the Boston Red Sox....

July 20, 2016. I was so excited to leave Japan and head to the US. The time had finally come to realize my long-held dream. Being old, I...

On Tuesday, April 2, 2013, the Houston Astros played against the Texas Rangers at Minute Maid Park (now called Daikin Park) in Houston,...

"The Art of Fielding" (2011) by Chad Harbach is a wonderful masterpiece novel. I was engrossed in reading it. “The Art of Fielding” by...

Wisconsin is a state in the Midwestern United States. It is famous for its large German population and for its beer production. The...

Kevin Costner is my favorite movie actor. When he was young, he was so cool that even a man like me was fascinated by him. Since middle...

After the 2008 season ended, I was sorting through various records and noticed something unusual. It was something unusual with regard to...

On April 25, 2016, I flew from Japan to the US, arrived in Houston, Texas, and started my road trip in a rental car. Then, on May 3, I...

Wednesday, September 28, 1960, at Fenway Park. If you get what I'm talking about from this, you must be a big MLB fan. That day, a...

My wife, Chiaki Mukai, is an astronaut and has flown twice on the space shuttle. Her second space flight was the nine-day STS-95 mission...

Since 1901, when the modern era of Major League Baseball began, eight players have achieved a batting average of .400 a total of 13...

One night, I was lying in bed in my bedroom at home, watching the DVD of the very funny American comedy movie "Liar Liar" (1997). Then, I...