SM: Icould not go home for twomonths. But it's all right, becausewhen I came back home, I found the last place Giants ( Japanese baseballteam) had won their division.
Robert Fitts, author of the book Remembering JapaneseBaseball, thinks it will take a Herculean sales job to convince the proud baseball community to allow foreign ownership.
Japanesebaseball, unable to stem the tide of top stars moving to the states for top dollar, "post" available players who are still under contract to their teams, as a way to collect cash compensation for departing players.