Baseball: Watershed match remembered in Yokohama

A Tokyo sculpture shows the globe as a baseball in this photo taken June 5, 2016. The work marks the former location of the First Higher School of Tokyo, whose team's victories over foreign ball players in 1896 propelled baseball into Japan's national consciousness. The inscription reads "The birthplace of Japanese baseball." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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