Major League Baseball's regular season finished prior to finishing of Japanese professional baseball's one. The morning paper reported the Twins player Joe Mauer who won the American league batting title.It is the first time in the past 64 years that a catcher got the batting title. In AL, it's the first time. He is still 23 years old. Surprisingly, he gained fame as basketball and football player when he was a high school student. I can't believe! How talented in sports!!
Sometimes there seems to be such a thing in the U.S. But normally, Japanese baseball players have played ONLY baseball since they were kids. At the latest, they begin it when they are junior high school students and do just baseball. So the story of Joe Mauer seems worlds apart.
The postseason games of MLB will start tomorrow. And Joe Mauer will come to Japan next month with some other major leaguers, such as Ryan Howard who led the NL in both RBI and homers and Johan Santana who captured the triple crown of pitcher (winningest pitcher, ERA and strikeout king), to have games with Japanese players. I'm looking forward to it!
By the way, I found another picture of Joe Mauer. Is it the same person?
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