Yanks Go Yard » New York media http://yanksgoyard.com A New York Yankees Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sat, 25 May 2013 02:40:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Hirok Is No Joke: A Look At Kuroda’s Old-School Upbringing http://yanksgoyard.com/2012/07/06/hirok-is-no-joke-a-look-at-kurodas-old-school-upbringing/ http://yanksgoyard.com/2012/07/06/hirok-is-no-joke-a-look-at-kurodas-old-school-upbringing/#comments Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:00:33 +0000 Andrew Corselli http://yanksgoyard.com/?p=6907 David Waldstein of the NY Times has an incredible profile on Hiroki Kuroda‘s baseball upbringing in Japan, and…wow! You have to read this thing. If you think your coaches in high school were bad, you haven’t seen anything yet. The treatment of these players is something that would make Steinbrenner in his “prime” blush.

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