17-yr-old Burkinabe becomes pro baseball player in Japan

17-yr-old Burkinabe becomes pro baseball player in Japan

Sanfo Lassina, a 17-year-old from Burkina Faso, celebrates after passing a test to become a professional baseball players with the Kochi Fighting Dogs of the Shikoku Island League Plus, an independent professional baseball league in western Japan, in Kochi, western Japan, on Aug. 25, 2015. Lassina has become the first person from the West African country to play baseball at the professional level. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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