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On this day in Round and Square History 3 August 2012—Reviews: Introduction
3 August 2011—Seinfeld Ethnography: Code-Cracking
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| [a] Individual and Society RF |
可飛ばせ, 細川!
Let 'er rip, Hosokawa! OR
Fly to base, Hosokawa!
Fly to base, Hosokawa!
—Common Japanese baseball chant
(Hosokawa is a common (enough) surname, like "Bradley")
(Hosokawa is a common (enough) surname, like "Bradley")
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| [b] Golden sprite RF |
And every year, the player who best exemplifies the spirit of ベスボル let's 'er rip (and flies to base) with a little added recognition.
It is called ゴールデンスピリット賞, the "Golden Spirit Award." If you don't read katakana, just realize that the phrases are "alike," if not "exactly." And the winners form a pretty impressive bunch, from Hideki Matsui to Bobby Valentine and beyond.
Golden Spirit. It has to start young.
And it means more than just "most congenial."
[If you don't read Japanese, but want to have some sense of the Japanese kana and kanji in these posts, just copy the phrases and paste them into translation software such as Babylon or Google Translate].
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