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A one-take reading from ROBERT WHITING'S JAPAN:

'Crazy' Wright had a tough time adjusting to Japanese baseball
ROBERT WHITING
JUL 10, 2023

https://robertwhiting.substack.com/p/crazy-wright-had-a-tough-time-adjusting

TOKYO — A reader writes in regard to my recent column describing Clyde ‘Crazy’ Wright urinating into a reporter’s hat and asks, ‘Why did he do that?’ ”

Allow me to explain. Wright had a temper, yes. He was involved in fights on the field which veteran reporters covering the Giants found distasteful because the Yomiuri code of ethics deemed that the Giants players “always be gentlemen.”

So a reporter for the Hochi Shimbun, a top sports daily published by the Yomiuri Shimbun, wrote an article saying that the Giants should get rid of Wright because he was an embarrassment to the team.

FOR THE REST OF THE ARTICLE, PLEASE VISIT:

https://robertwhiting.substack.com/p/crazy-wright-had-a-tough-time-adjusting

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TOKYO JUNKIE https://tokyojunkie.com/
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Robert (Bob) Whiting is a best-selling, critically-acclaimed author who has written extensively on Japan, Japanese-American relations, and sports. His book You Gotta Have Wa was a Pulitzer Prize candidate and has recently been included in the Society for American Baseball Research’s (SABR) top fifty baseball books of the last fifty years"

https://sabr.org/50at50/books

His latest book is Tokyo Junkie, https://amzn.to/3MdUyr9 a memoir focused on his life in Japan that combines Japanese post-war history and Japanese-American relations with his own experiences. You can read the foreword here, and excerpts here:

https://www.fccj.or.jp/sites/default/files/2021-04/04-April-2021-Number1Shimbun-v14.pdf

This site - https://tokyojunkie.com/archive/ - is a work-in-progress archive of Bob’s work.

You can also subscribe to his Substack and podcast, Robert Whiting’s Japan, - https://substack.com/@robertwhiting - which provide regular analysis of Japanese sports, politics, and business.