Reggie

A long-time star hitter for the Richmond Flags, one of the hottest major league baseball teams in the country, poor Reggie has hit a slump that he just can't shake. When the Flags finally let him go, Reggie follows what has become a veritable tradition among American major-leaguers suffering from performance problems: he goes to Japan. Not unlike those who have gone before him, he soon discovers that he is unprepared for the entirely different animal that is Japanese baseball. (Source: Mangajin...

Excerpts of chapters 1 and 3 of Reggie were published with English annotations in issues 49 through 52 of the Japanese language learning magazine Mangajin from October 1995 to February 1996.