Baseball: Giants announce 4th player involved in gambling

Baseball: Giants announce 4th player involved in gambling

File photo taken in September 2015 shows Yomiuri Giants reliever Kyosuke Takagi pitching. The Giants said on March 8, 2016 that the 26-year-old was found to have bet on baseball games, the fourth player in Japanese baseball's most storied franchise to admit to the illegal act. The Giants' supreme advisor Tsuneo Watanabe and owner Kojiro Shiraishi have decided to resign to take the blame. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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