Rintaro Sasaki is a teenage phenomenon who aspires to play Major League Baseball. He is a trailblazer embarking upon an unconventional path for a Japanese ball player.

1921 — Kenesaw Mountain Landis takes office as baseball’s commissioner ... Tony Dungy joins him when his Indianapolis Colts take the AFC title. 2009 — New Jersey Institute of Technology ends its ...

Last year, she took 20 units worth of classes at Stanford ... baseball’s John Smoltz and Aaron Hicks. Zhang, who trails ...

Moore, 21, is the organization’s No. 5 prospect, according to MLB Pipeline, and is the second-ranked position player prospect ...

From San Francisco to Oakland and points in between, basketball's deep roots are found throughout the Bay Area.

1921 — Kenesaw Mountain Landis takes office as baseball’s commissioner ... his Indianapolis Colts take the AFC title. 2009 — New Jersey Institute of Technology ends its 51-game losing ...

“He healed the wounds in Japan’s national psyche,” Kiyoteru Tsutsui, professor of sociology at Stanford University, told The Associated Press. On Tuesday, he’s expected to be the first Japanese player ...

“Keep following my dream to become a great player,” Morii said through a translator during a Zoom news conference, wearing a gold A's jersey over ... college ball for Stanford last season. “I wanted ...

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed ...

Currently, 40 states allow high school athletes to accept some form of compensation. William Carter, a top NIL consultant who ...