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Article: In Japan, take the family out to the ballgame.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 25, 2008
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Byline: Takehiko Kambayashi Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Kamagaya, Japan -- As a teenager, Megumi Shiina hesitated to reveal that she was a fan of baseball, because it was considered to be a "boys' sport."
"I rarely found a girl like me," she recalls. At ballparks, she was surrounded by boys and businessmen in gray suits, a number of them inebriated.
No more. More than a decade later, "you see so many women and girls," she says.
Ms. Shiina was one of the 2,500 enthusiastic fans who packed the Kamagaya Ballpark, 40 miles northeast of Tokyo, the hometown of the farm team of the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters.
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