Hello everyone, I’m Hagiko Yamamoto and I love reading books. My girlfriend’s parents love books, so I’ve been familiar with picture books and novels since I was little. Even now, I feel itchy if I don’t pick up a new novel at least once a week.
Books are nice, aren’t they? It will be waiting for you when you want to read it. So, this time I would like to talk about “baseball books”.
One of the great things about books is that you can read them at your own pace, but I think part of the appeal is that you feel like the author is working with you one-on-one. Unlike TV, movies, concerts, etc., the author’s words reach my heart directly.
Even when it comes to baseball books, no matter how great a player or manager the author is, I get the illusion that the author is speaking only to me, transcending the relationship between author and reader. That’s why when I read books written by players or coaches, I fall in love with them even more.
When I read the book “The Power of Consciousness” (PHP Shinsho) written by Shinya Miyamoto, I felt like I got a glimpse of the other side of intense captaincy. Of course, I watched him perform on the field, but when I met him for the first time at work, I was so moved that I cried. I had a book in hand and for the first time in my life I asked for an autograph. That autographed book is still a treasure in our family.
There’s something special about books with words printed on paper. Reading on a smartphone is nice, but reading on paper feels special, probably because I grew up around books.
This series can only be read on the internet, but my grandparents took the trouble to print it out on paper and save it. Lately, I’ve been buying more comics and other e-books, but I still think it’s better to have real books (e-books are easy to carry around and aren’t bulky, so in the end it’s a matter of personal preference).
Please let me know what baseball books you recommend.
Returning to the main topic, there are two main types of baseball books.
・Written by players and coaches themselves
・Written by writers other than the author
The great thing about books written by players and coaches themselves is that they contain their own subjective opinions. For example, when you read a review of a memorable game in baseball history, readers can feel a new sense of wonder, “This is what it looked like back then.”
On the other hand, when you read a book written by a writer, you can recreate a single event in your mind in three dimensions, such as what this player was thinking or what the leaders were doing. Sports non-fiction, in particular, has been a popular genre for a long time.
It’s a very happy time to be able to “match the answers” to memorable scenes while reading a book. Baseball is a sport with a lot of blank space, so fans who watch the game can let their imagination run wild. It takes a few seconds for the ball to leave the pitcher’s hand and the play to be decided. I think it’s a luxury to be able to reflect on the drama that happened in that little time in print.
Katsuya Nomura, the director of Yakult and other teams, is also a writer himself, and has published many related books. That’s probably why Nomu-san had so many words.
There are many autobiographical books that are close to the players, but on the other hand, there are also books that provide objective reviews, such as those written by coach Hiromitsu Ochiai, that are also interesting. It’s a little difficult to put into words, but I feel like a book with a bit of a dark side would be more interesting than someone who is bright and cheerful…Is this just a bias?
If I were an editor, the writer I would be paying attention to would be Hiroshima’s Shogo Akiyama. Akiyama doesn’t use social media, but he has experience in Japanese baseball and Major League Baseball, and he speaks many languages of his own. It has a solid philosophy, so I think it will be an interesting book.
If it’s Yakult, I’d like to ask catcher Yuhei Nakamura. I feel like the catcher, who has a bird’s-eye view of the entire field, also has a variety of words.
And I also want to publish a book someday. Until that day, please support this series!
See you next week.
★Shuko Yamamoto
Born October 2, 1996, from Kanagawa Prefecture. Free caster. He grew up in a family that loved baseball, and before he knew it, he became a baseball freak.
For five years starting in 2019, he served as a caster for “Warspo x MLB” (NHK BS1).His cat’s name is Valentin
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2024-01-19 04:44:56
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