martes, 14 de junio de 2011

At last !!

READING THE PARAGRAPH ABOUT BASEBALL ,I LEARNED IMPORTANT FACTS WHICH I WAS UNFAMILIAR WITH .FIRST ,I DID NOT KNOW THAT BASEBALL WAS PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS TOWNBALL ; I WAS NOT AWARE WHEN BASEBALL WAS BORN AND THAT THE CINCINNATI RED STOCKINGS WAS THE FIRST PROFESSIONAL TEAM TO BE ESTABLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES . THE TERM JBALL WAS UNKNOWN TO ME ,TO MY SURPRISE THAT IS THE WAY THEY CALL IT IN JAPAN .JBALL (BASEBALL )WAS INTRODUCED BY AN AMERICAN TEACHER CALLED: HORACE WILSON ,IN 1873.PRIMARILY JBALL WAS USED AS A TEACHING TOOL AND THE PLAYERS COULD STRENGTHEN THEMSELVES PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY .AFTER JBALL BECAME ESTABLISHED ,THE JAPONESE COMPANIES SPONSORED THE BASEBALL TEAMS TO GET POSITIVE PUBLICITY. JAPAN HAVE TWO LEAGUES OF SIX TEAMS EACH .THE FIRSTSUPERSTAR IN JAPONESE BASEBALL WAS TETSUHARU KAWAKAMI,NICKNAMED "THE GOD OF BATTING''.IN 1965, HE TURNED TO BE A MANAGER OF THE GIANTS , THE MOST POPULAR TEAMS IN JAPAN.EVEN THOUGH KAWAKAMI WAS THE FIRST SUPERTAR ,SHIGEO NAGASHIMA, A NEXT GIANTS STAR ,IS STILL THE MOST REVERED PLAYER IN JAPANESE JBALL. THERE ARE STILL MANY THINGS I COULD SAY ABOUT JAPONESE BASEBALL BUT I WILL END UP SAYING THAT JAPONESE PLAYERS ARE TO BE RESPECTED IN THE BASEBALL INTERNATIONAL ARENA!!!..

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