Baseball was already super popular in Japan. Hence why it’s popular in former Japanese colonies like Taiwan and Korea. American players like Babe Ruth played exhibition games there and everything, which is why two of the last remaining ballparks he played in are there.
Also John Marshall was the Supreme Court Justice. George Marshall was the Marshall Plan guy.
Also the Marshall Plan strictly speaking was for Western Europe, not Japan.
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Baseball was already super popular in Japan. Hence why it’s popular in former Japanese colonies like Taiwan and Korea. American players like Babe Ruth played exhibition games there and everything, which is why two of the last remaining ballparks he played in are there.
Also John Marshall was the Supreme Court Justice. George Marshall was the Marshall Plan guy.
Also the Marshall Plan strictly speaking was for Western Europe, not Japan.
Go Jays
The origin story of baseball in Japan starts 73 years before the end of WWII in 1872 when a US Civil War vet in Japan taught his students how to play https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/05/sports/baseball/horace-wilson-japan-150.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare