A Near Escape: the 1981 Kansas City Royals Tour of Japan
1981 Kansas City Royals Goodwill Tour advertisement (Robert Fitts Collection) For decades it had been the hope of Matsutaro Shoriki, the owner of the Yomiuri Shimbun Group, a conglomerate that produces the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper and owns the Yomiuri Giants baseball team, that there would one day be a “true world series” played between […]