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I told a Japanese girl said that Japanese baseball players come to America "to play against the best players in the world".
boy she got pissed. the Japanese are very proud of their baseball.
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Japan has pretty much given us a run for our money in the summer olympics:
#1. Cuba
3 gold, 1 silver medals (4 total)
#2. USA
1 gold, 1 bronze ( 2 total )
#3. Japan
1 silver, 2 bronze ( 3 total )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basebal...ummer_Olympics
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MLB players don't play in Baseball Olympic Events.
EDIT:
After some more google-searching, it appears that Baseball and Softball were removed from the Olympics. Possibly comming back, but Selig doesn't want MLB players halting mid-season for the Olympic games. We would pretty much destroy any team that played us. Dream Team, anybody?
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its really more because most of the best players in MLB are not American, but the MLB is definitely the best professional league.