Photopost: Nagasaki Saints vs. Kagawa Olive Guyners - Adventures in Sasebo

The next baseball-related stop on my Great Train Adventure was to go down to Sasebo on Wednesday, the 19th. Sasebo is a little port city in Nagasaki prefecture, famous for burgers and churches, and it also happens to be where a particular Seattle Mariners catcher grew up...Yes -- I wandered out to the Kenji Johjima Baseball Museum. UNFORTUNATELY, it is closed on Wednesdays, so I couldn't go in. Oops. Much like the Matsui Museum, this is just a little place run by Johjima's family, right by their house, which is in the middle of nowhere in Sasebo. If I ever make it back out there, I'll try to stop by again.After that I went down to the Sasebo Baseball Park, where I went to watch a game in the Shikoku-Kyushu Island League, or more specifically, I saw the Kagawa Olive Guyners come to town to take on the local Nagasaki Saints. Believe it or not, Nagasaki and St. Paul are sister cities, and the Nagasaki Saints use the same logo as the St. Paul Saints. At the same time,...