CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Rintaro Sasaki didn’t so much choose baseball as it chose him: Born to a legendary high school coach in Japan, gifted with a massive frame that generates prodigious ...

"Rintaro! Rintaro!" They were hoping to get the attention of college baseball's next big thing: Rintaro Sasaki, a power-hitting legend of Japanese high school baseball, who rewrote the record books ...

The newest Japanese baseball star is blazing his own path, and he's set for a much-anticipated college debut this weekend. Rintaro Sasaki, 19, begins his collegiate career as Stanford opens its ...

FULLERTON, California—Stanford University first baseman Rintaro Sasaki took questions ... David Esquer, Stanford’s director of baseball, also praised Sasaki for his outstanding communication ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later this year, reminders that some of the top talent in ...

"So, the expectation that Rintaro just becomes this dominant figure immediately is a little unfair, and that's not what we expect of him. "I'm well aware that baseball is a journey." For Sasaki ...