| DATE: | Saturday, December 6, 2008 |
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| TIME: | 9:00 AM to 12:15 PM |
| PLACE: | Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley |
| FORMAT: | Symposium and Film Screening |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Japanese Studies, Yomiuri Shimbun, Department of Ahletics |
Film Screening: (9:00 am - 10:30 am)
“THE ZEN OF BOBBY V.” (ESPN Documentary, 2008, 86min)
Symposium (10:30 am-11:30 am)
Panel Discussion moderated by Jack Sakazaki (President of Japan Sports Marketing. Cal class of '71)
Featured Speakers:
William Kelly, (Yale Univ.) author of The Hanshin Tigers and Professional Baseball in Modern Japan (forthcoming)
Warren Cromartie, former Yomiuri Giants player and MVP of Japan's Central League, a former Major Leaguer with the Montreal Expos and Kansas City Royals, author of Slugging It Out in Japan
Andrew Gordon, (Harvard Univ.) author of The Unknown Story of Matsuzaka’s Major League Revolution (in Jspanese)
Masanori Murakami, Japan’s 1st MLB player and pioneer, former San Francisco Giants pitcher, currently Director of the All Japan Baseball Foundation.
Light Reception to follow
This event is free and open to the public.
Please note that the time of the event has been changed. (Originally the afternoon program but switched to the morning starting from 9:00 am)
