The Golden Age of the Gaijin - NPB's Foreign Stars of the 1980s (feat. The Yakyu Cosmopolitan)

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  • Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
  • Every decade has seen a good amount of foreign players come through NPB, some succeed, a good amount fail, but one decade saw more of the former than any other in recent memory, the 1980s
    Check out the Yakyu Cosmopolitan: / @yakyucosmopolitan
    All music is from the Yakuza 0 OST
    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    1:35 Lotte Orions
    4:55 Kintetsu Buffaloes
    8:41 Yomiuri Giants
    11:58 Seibu Lions
    17:49 Hiroshima Carp
    20:32 Hankyu Braves
    25:47 Lightning Round
    27:36 Hanshin Tigers
    39:21 Outro
    All content in this video is used under fair use.
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Комментарии • 38

  • @BJWanlund
    @BJWanlund 3 года назад +18

    Wow. Wow wow wow. That story regarding the Tigers (my team of choice) and how they treated Randy Bass is wild. I look forward to seeing more Hanshin Tigers content in the future!

  • @YakyuCosmopolitan
    @YakyuCosmopolitan 3 года назад +25

    Gotta love a 41 minute video, really living up to the “Gaijin Baseball” name by talking about so many gaijin 👀
    And thank you for the Braves/Boomer slot!

  • @PepsiWithCoke
    @PepsiWithCoke 3 года назад +16

    Upvoted just for using the Yakuza 0 Disco music as an intro.
    And the video is great too.

  • @Tubewings
    @Tubewings 2 года назад +7

    Pete LaCock's father is Peter Marshall, best known as the legendary host of "The Hollywood Squares" from 1966 to 1981 (as well as a brief stint in 2002).

  • @ianwoodul7732
    @ianwoodul7732 Год назад +4

    Intro hit harder than my grandma smacking me as a baby with the chankla

  • @zachariahslade4527
    @zachariahslade4527 29 дней назад

    Your channel is my very favourite on RUclips. Thank you SO much for this contribution to baseball.

  • @ajworden
    @ajworden 4 дня назад

    Great video, thanks for putting this together. One point of information - it’s Matt Kee-oh.

  • @tetetet87
    @tetetet87 3 года назад +5

    Fucking awesome video! Keep at it brother!

  • @lorddalek
    @lorddalek Год назад +3

    26:47 There's another thing about Pete LaCock besides his name being Pete LaCock. His dad is Pierre LaCock, aka Peter Marshall from Hollywood Squares.

  • @andrewconway9175
    @andrewconway9175 3 года назад +9

    Nice video! I just got into Japanese baseball, discovered that my uncle by marriage use to play.

    • @GaijinBaseball
      @GaijinBaseball  3 года назад +3

      That's amazing!
      Who did he play for, if you don't mind me asking?

    • @andrewconway9175
      @andrewconway9175 3 года назад +8

      @@GaijinBaseball Carps and Lions, if I'm correct he currently coaches for the Carps Yusuke Kawada

    • @futuregohan4837
      @futuregohan4837 2 года назад +1

      @@GaijinBaseball Imagine If Ryan Howard Played In Japan In 2004 Oh Boy Howard Would've Been Huge In Japan

  • @jevlan4635
    @jevlan4635 3 года назад +5

    great vid man keep it up :)

  • @ositofreitas
    @ositofreitas Год назад +2

    My old next door neighbor! Brad Lesley “Animal San”. Dudes jersey said “Animal” on the back

  • @stevenmccart8502
    @stevenmccart8502 Год назад +3

    I was watching m.l.b. one Saturday and Pete Lacock put out Dave Laroach at first base.😆 It went right over the announcers heads.

  • @ryanfox4462
    @ryanfox4462 2 года назад +3

    Boomer played with Syracuse for a couple of years to end the 70s. I heard from former teammate Steve Grilli that his son, former Pirates closer Jason Grilli, would always go to him for his second hand comic books!

  • @Sporcle1
    @Sporcle1 3 года назад +5

    incredible stuff! Keep up the fantastic work!

  • @GreenHornet553
    @GreenHornet553 2 года назад +4

    I had no idea that Derrek Lee's dad and uncle were such legends in the Japanese game. That's so cool to know, especially since Derrek Lee was one of my favorite players as a kid. Love the channel btw and look forward to more videos that you post.

    • @GaijinBaseball
      @GaijinBaseball  2 года назад +1

      It's honestly a shame that Derrek didn't take a one year deal with the Chiba Marines just for shots and goggles.
      He would've been a fan favorite no matter how he did.

    • @GreenHornet553
      @GreenHornet553 2 года назад +1

      @@GaijinBaseball That would have been a sight to see. Would have been a great somewhat full circle moment for the Lee family to see Derrek play for the Marines in one final hurrah in 2012.

  • @ciello___8307
    @ciello___8307 3 года назад +3

    nice work! hope your channels get bigger!

  • @dcbandnerd
    @dcbandnerd 2 года назад +2

    Manna from heaven! The algorithm finally had the good sense to put your into my suggested queue. I'm looking forward to learning more about Japanese Baseball.

  • @strattydavis2455
    @strattydavis2455 3 года назад +3

    Great video! Keep it up dude

  • @KurtBergland
    @KurtBergland 2 года назад +2

    Great video-thank you!

  • @BigPeso
    @BigPeso 27 дней назад

    Love these videos they got me into Japanese baseball please keep up the content

  • @Nein1no
    @Nein1no 3 года назад +6

    35:52 Some of these pitching stats during the 80's require a bit more context............. NPB offense in the 80's was absolutely bonkers. lol
    Also, I am not sure if you took this into account or not, as it's slightly out of the scope of the video (the video is amazing mind you!) but of course NPB didn't (and still doesn't) play the same amount of games MLB teams do.
    Because of this, a while ago, I made a spreadsheet that tells what a NPB players stats would be if they played the same rate of MLB games for their career. I mention this because Bass's 1985 season? Had NPB played the same amount of games as MLB did, Bass's 1985 season may have resulted in 67 HR's.
    SIXTY. SEVEN.

  • @ringo3911
    @ringo3911 2 года назад +3

    Go Carter Stewart!

  • @Drogon7102
    @Drogon7102 2 года назад +1

    12:35 I love that the uniform just says steve lol.

  • @chriszenko3598
    @chriszenko3598 24 дня назад

    I went to a Tigers game in the Osaka dome they were playing the Buffalos Ichiro almost hit for the cycle I had to buy a Buffalo cap the dark l blue one with the red eyes coolest baseball cap i ever seen

  • @ThrashAD720
    @ThrashAD720 3 месяца назад

    Somebody on here posted the full version of Carlos Ponce cheer song and now it's gone.

  • @brahemedays2914
    @brahemedays2914 2 года назад +1

    Jeez Warren Cromartie could rake.

  • @carlnilssonyoung8961
    @carlnilssonyoung8961 Год назад +1

    Cecil fielder was the one who pioneered playing back to mLB by doing well in NPB.
    Tigers mis management on Bass case was no surprise that tigers management was notoriously bad in history almost like became their traditions

  • @carlnilssonyoung8961
    @carlnilssonyoung8961 Год назад +1

    The major reason was the strong 80s was the strong Yen during this period.
    Since the states trapped Japan by the Plaza Accord that weakened the Japanese economy, the buying power of NpB teams diminished

  • @carlquistharris
    @carlquistharris 2 года назад +1

    Hirooka would have been considered extreme by the Taliban. Did he let his players listen to music or fly kites?

  • @b-zoneonroku2020
    @b-zoneonroku2020 5 месяцев назад

    Poor STEVE...

  • @naturalthing1
    @naturalthing1 2 года назад +2

    Eddie Murphy...uh, I mean Ralph Bryant was a great player

  • @shaindaman13
    @shaindaman13 7 месяцев назад

    I wanna learn to speak Japanese really bad if anyone has any good suggestions how a person can learn that on their own? One thing I’ve noticed is whether it’s a name or a word, you never see a word that begins or has the letter L In Japanese.