Despite the whispers in the wind that have danced through the offseason and into Spring Training regarding Masataka Yoshida ...

the baseball club said Tuesday. He was 91. Yoshida steered the Tigers to their first Japan Series championship in 1985 during the second of his three stints as Hanshin manager. One of the most ...

Maya Yoshida started more games and played more minutes than anyone on the Galaxy roster last season. And for that his reward ...

Two years ago, the Boston Red Sox brought in Japanese star Masataka Yoshida on a 5-year $90 million deal. In two years with Boston, Yoshida’s talent for finding ...

Tokyo, Feb. 4 (Jiji Press)--Yoshio Yoshida, former player and then manager of the Hanshin Tigers professional baseball team in western Japan, died of a stroke early Monday, the team announced Tuesday.

Even with superstar Masataka Yoshida gone to greener pastures ... today’s Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, won the Japan Series championship, beating the Central League’s Tigers.

Outfielder Masataka Yoshida had to cut short his very ... a high school baseball star indicated that he wanted to skip Nippon Professional Baseball to chase his dream of becoming the world ...

To celebrate the historical moment of Maine native Horace Wilson bringing baseball to Japan in 1870, Yoshida attended a ceremony at the Gorham farmhouse where Wilson was born. He met with some of ...