ESPN To Produce Japanese Baseball/Bobby Valetine Documentary
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Say what you want about ESPN films, but this one looks like a winner if you ask me. ESPN is producing a two-hour documentary on Japanese Baseball and will more than likely show things about the Sport and Culture that have never been seen in America.
Slated to air in the Spring of 2008, the tentatively titled “Bobby V in Japan” will give baseball fans and viewers unprecedented access to Valentine and his team, while exploring the impact globalization has on the game’s present and future. Additionally, original online webisodes and written blogs detailing the production of the film and baseball life in Japan will be produced exclusively for ESPN.com’s Page 2.I'm sold on the Japanese Cheerleaders alone! And rock bands is just the icing on the cake. But in all seriousness it's such a different Sport over there, and this could actually be ground-breaking stuff. I'm actually looking forward to this one.
The producers have been granted a rare inside look at a world mostly unknown to the American public. It’s a world where cheerleaders chant between innings, rock bands perform before each game and barbwires keep ecstatic fans from running onto the field.
(Source: ESPN)
P.S.- For a great piece on Japanese baseball read Extra P's "10 Things You Should Know" article at Chicago Sports Weekly (Pg 26). Great stuff.
3 Comments:
This is how cool the Japanese are when it comes to baseball; They wear English-language uniforms because it's done that way in America and that is the only way to wear a uniform. This doc sounds like a winner.
Glad to finally see a program that will focus on baseball in Japan. It should be an eye opener for many to see how they play the game.
That GMoney post is typical of the ignorance and sense of superiority by Americans. Anything not American is automatically second rate...!
Rhodes is not the best player he just knocks the ball out of the park more than others, but that's not all that counts over there.
It's about playing the game the way it's meant to be played.
2 hours about a league whose best player is Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes??? Sign me up!!!