Baseball: Watershed match remembered in Yokohama

Masanori Murakami, Japan's first major leaguer, speaks before an event in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on June 11, 2016, to mark the 120th anniversary of the first baseball game between Japanese and non Japanese. On May 23, 1896, the first Higher School of Tokyo defeated the Yokohama Cricket and Athletic Club 29-4. The school's dominant performance sent baseball's popularity in Japan skyrocketing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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