A few years ago, while holed up in my hotel room in Noboribetsu, a town in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, I watched a game between the Sapporo Ham Fighters vs the Yomimiuri Giants. I loved the faster pace and the rowdy fans. Even though I wasn't familiar with the players, it was a very entertaining game.This week's cover features Chicago Cubs' rookie Kosuke Fukudo, making him the fifth Japanese baseball player to make the cover of Sports Illustrated. He joins the company of Sadaharu Oh, Hisanobu Watanabe, Ichiro, and Daisuke to have the honor of being on the cover of SI. It'll be a couple of weeks before we get a quantity of these covers, but check out the other Japanese baseball covers that are in stock.
August 15, 1977 - Sadaharu Oh (Yomimiuri Giants)
October 31, 1994 - Hisanobu Watanabe (Seibu Lions)
May 28, 2001 - Ichiro Suzuki (No Mailing Label)
July 8, 2002 - Ichiro Suzuki
March 26, 2007 - Daisuke Matsuzaka (No Mailing Label)
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