Sport: Japan: Fan

Two teams of U. S. major league baseballers have made exhibition tours of Japan since the War. The last tour, organized by Sportswriter Fred Lieb of the New York Evening Post, ended last fortnight when a team including Pitcher Grove, Leftfielder Simmons and Catcher Cochrane of the Philadelphia Athletics, First Baseman Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees, Captain Frank Frisch of the world's champion St. Louis Cardinals, and Shortstop Walter ("Rabbit") Maranville of the Boston Braves, docked at San Francisco. They had played 17 games in Japan, won them all, been...

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