Juicing Baseballs: Japan Sees Record Number of Home Runs
Japanese baseball fans (Photo: El Scrapeo/Flickr)
There’s been a record number of home runs in Japanese baseball this season: 60 percent more homers than this time last year in fact.
So many that Japanese players started to wonder, is there something different with the ball?
Turns out, there is.
Eleanor Warnock’s following the story in Tokyo for the Wall Street Journal.
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