Robert Whiting Quotes
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Ichiro | Train | Harder | True | Closely |
You've got loggers and fishermen in Seattle who didn't know what sushi was a decade ago, eating it at the ballpark and wearing headbands with kanji [Japanese characters] on them... That's quite a transformation. Ichiro is the one who is responsible for that shift.
- Robert Whiting
All of his games -- including exhibition and intra-squad games -- were telecast nationwide... It was this that gave the Japanese their first real solid look at the way Americans play ball. They saw how accepting the Americans were, and decided that maybe they could act the same way.
- Robert Whiting
