Murakami, 25, owns the single-season home run record for a Japanese player in Nippon Professional Baseball, having hit 56 in ...

Earlier this year, on a cold Sunday in January, I walked into an antique store in a Washington D.C. suburb. When I go to a ...

Add two more names to the list of Wisconsin high-school alumni to win World Series rings. These are the others.

Breaking into MLB The first Japanese-born MLB player, Masanori Murakami, debuted for the San Francisco Giants in September 1964. But his arrival wound up sparking a contractual tug-of-war between the ...