On this episode of the Japan Station podcast, we're joined by baseball historian and expert on all things Japanese baseball Robert Fits.

About Robert Fitts Robert Fitts is a baseball historian and expert ont he history of Japanese baseball. He has written numerous books on Japanese baseball including Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assissination During the 1934 Tour of Japan. Topics Discussed

• How Robert Fitts got interested in baseball
• How Robert Fitts became interested in Japanese baseball
• Robert Fitts' first trip to Japan and first experience at a Japanese baseball game
• About Remembering Japanese Baseball, Robert Fitts' first book on Japanese baseball
• About selling Japanese baseball cards on ebay in 1999
• About Wally Yonamine
• About the book Banzai Babe Ruth
• About Babe Ruth's 1934 18 game Japan tour and the history behind it
• About Moe Berg and the possibility that he was conducting espoionage during Babe Ruth's Japan tour
• About Babe Ruth's popularity in Japan
• About Babe Ruth's affinity for Japan
• About the history of Japanese baseball cards
• About the book An Illustrated Introduction to Japanese Baseball Cards
• About the baseball card market in Japan
• About the Japanese pitcher Eiji Sawamura
• About the upcoming book The Pioneers of Japanese American Baseball
• And much more!