0150 Take Me Out to the Besuboro Game

This Postcard is for every little girl who dreams of pitching in the majors. Take me out to the besuboru game! Besuboru is"baseball" in Japanese. It’s a borrowed word and has been adapted to the Japanese sound set which makes no r/l distinction and does not have syllables that end in consonants. Thus besu and boru. Ever since the sport was introduced in the Meiji period, the Japanese have embraced it. And just like here, it’s been the bastion of men. But Japan is about to change all that by recruiting 16-year-old Eri Yoshida, to play for the heretofore all-guy Kobe 9 Cruise pro team. They say she’s got a killer knuckle ball and has struck out countless men during her tryouts. You go, besuboru girl! #ceas #hacker #japan