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More About Japanese Baseball (Part 4 of 6)

Historian Kazuo Sayama recounts the history of baseball. "In Japan, [it] began at a junior high school right in the middle of Tokyo that is now Tokyo University. It was in 1872, and there was an American teacher named Horace Wilson who taught English and math."