Japense Baseball and Sports

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200109-the-unique-world-of-japanese-baseball

One interesting fact in this short video about Japanese baseball is that Keio University has 150 team members. Of course most baseball teams only have about 25 players who sit in a baseball dugout.


 Of course if you watch the high school Summer Koshien, the national high school baseball tournament, you see a large group of high boys in their baseball uniforms in the stands at the Koshien stadium in Nishinomiya City in Hyogo in the Osaka/Kobe metropolitan area.


 Its interesting there are also large teams such for the running or ekiden teams which might have over 50 team members. There have been some articles written, especially about the more successful teams, about what is the personal cost regarding other factors in a young person's life who are part of these teams. Maybe not so much in university baseball, but how many of the players actually go on the play university baseball, pro baseball, one of the semi pro or company or industrial teams.

 If a person/athlete, knows his chances are not good for moving up, but he wants to just be part of the team, to just try and practice etc., then he might have a better future than one who lives and dies for baseball and moving up. What percent actually move up the ranks? Out of those 150 how many will actually play in one game, or real game?


 Again if its just about wanting to be part of the team and practice, then he probably is not so burdened by the stress of moving to the next level as opposed to the 25 or so who make to the dugout for a real game but never move up to the next level.

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