Baseball: Researcher finds earliest-recorded game involving Japanese

An American researcher has identified the earliest known records of baseball games involving Japanese players -- a series contested in the United States in the summer of 1872 between local teams and a group of traveling performers.According to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, the earliest previous record of Japanese playing organized baseball was an 1876 contest between the students of Tokyo Kaisei Gakko and foreigners in Yokohama.A teacher at that school, American Horace Wilson, is widely credited with introducing the game to Japan when he began coaching his students in eithe…READ FULL ARTICLE