The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 22, 1984, Image 33

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Newspaper Page TextWednesday. August 22. 1964mw 15S Japan takes its ~ baseball serious TOKYO — Dir In, •nth tHr lO-foai bM Me patckcr wk#» an evil grm h atlir topof the mm mO and 2 and the ' The _. •*- .but a < ■*• not 3 DAYS ONLY ^ TEXAS A&M KAEPA S Men s and Women’s - AN Leather ONLY *39.99 ng 47.99) NORAMCMECKS over here on Mae piaver "If we do ok. *’» ■u^mfied a If we re five minutes hoe for pracuoe. o’» a h% deal. Ev enthang are do wron^ is blown oaat da SWBddWhHb** — There are 23 Amemans now pftaytna had in Japan, in* tudm^ ex mapor leafuers hke former Los An- frles Dodper* slufQper Krmpe Swath and Warren Oowiartae ofthe Mon treal Expos Several of them agreed to talk candadfi about chew problems pro vided they were not owoted by name As one firat-veai paver put it: “I want to «av here for a couple of wears, hut if you use nav name. IK be oack m the States by the end of the teason Guaranteed ' In Japan, one of the first things a foreign player learns m that toyakv w more important than a 300 batting average Crtacawn of a team by a player n not taken tight K From the moment they arrive, foreign players are laced with a boat of problems for which most are un prepared “The first ahock comes when you find out therr s nobody to help you settle m Mv orsencauon consisted of showing me ao mv apartment and iHhng me when ao report for prac tice.'' said one former major leaguer “They don't show you where to ahop or where to caacn your train.’* another player added “My wife was so scarra wlaen we first arrived that ahe wouldn't leave the apartment for weeks ” Each team has an interpreter. but aauat of them speak poor English and do bole ao help the players deal with ofl-thr-firid problems However, it w on the field that the real problems began * Baseball wav be an American in vention. but in adapting M ao their •ocaety the lapamhr have infused the game with so many unique values that a hears only superficial resent Matter to ns foreign parent “When I first arrived I thought thrjapa > are the playrri the ^*f^r*^hr" star You «eB They 'won’t let “If I strike out. I’ve let am Bui d I’m hitting . A faoatei pau her had the oppo- (hrowing the hull real ha. 0 and had sonar good games. But then nay Mnhr rone teemed to shrink conaad- crabb “ he aaad Mavhe I’m par antad. but certain things happen m gxnaei that don't happen unless tnev re happening to us ' The bushido code teaches that Japanese players ate members of a famdv headed by a father-hke man ager who looks after their welfare But resentment by lesser paid Jap anese players, coupled with the cul tural and language differences, deny the foreigner the emotional rewards and make for segregation qfT the field “I've been here five rears." aaad one veteran outfielder “In five years the Japanese have asked me out for a dnnk twice. Only twice I found my own way here Nobody £iped The fifth-rear outfielder a Bn ex ception Of the 23 AmencanE here now. onh nx have made tf past their second rear “Moat give up or don't get asked back." says Gracryk But those who stick it out have a powerful incentive money — and much more of m than they can make m the Stales A promising Triple A player can fetch as much as $100,000 a rear, tax free, while a tag-name major leaguer can make five or six times that “Sometimes I get real homesick But I'm making a helluva lot of money over here I'm making a fu ture for myself." said one player. A former Triple A star eamuqj five tunes what he did in the States put a this way: “Back home my sal ary barely made the house pay ments But here, if I stick at out a bale longer, I can go back a rich man. Sure M s lough But finan cially. M s worth all the headaches and heartaches." 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