Take a tour of Japan’s Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum 

Walk about 100 steps exterior the legendary Tokyo Dome — residence to a few of baseball historical past’s best moments — and you will come throughout one other web site holding a few of baseball’s best mementos: Japan’s Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Opened in 1959, the museum catalogs not simply the expansion of the Japanese recreation from beginner sport to the professionals, however highlights ladies’s and youth baseball, as properly.

As for the highlights, there’s tons of on show among the many handful of rooms.

“It’s very hard to squeeze it down to a few,” Masanobu Shojo, president of the museum, mentioned. “A few that come to mind immediately are the Japanese sword — the Katana — that Sadaharu Oh used for practicing, the Babe Ruth poster that was used for the 1934 series, and with the World Baseball Classic going on right now, the two WBC trophies from 2006 and 2009.”

Shojo did not turn out to be the president of the museum till 2019, he is aware of how excited followers have been to see the 2 World Baseball Classic trophies on show.

“I remember a lot of people coming in following the exhibition of these trophies. I hope that we have a new one in 2023 and we have a whole bunch of new guests fans coming to the museum,” Shojo mentioned.

For a deeper look into the gathering, both hop on a jet to Tokyo … or watch the video above.

Thanks to Sho Kurematsu for translation.