Wednesday. August 22. 1964mw
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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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Knorr. a 3-11, IK2-pound junior
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"Brian graded out higher than
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Berry mid “They are both firat-
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