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Japan planting seeds of baseball throughout Africa
Published Sun, Jun 12, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Dakar, Senegal
BABACAR Ndiaye, 12, does not know Babe Ruth from Bryce Harper. The boy's favourite baseball player is Ryoma Ogawa, who teaches Senegalese children to catch, throw, field and hit.
Baseball is called America's pastime, but Japan has been cultivating the sport in soccer-crazed Africa for years. Mr Ogawa, 24, is the latest in a long line of Japanese baseball missionaries.
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