Although it was Kanae CHUMAN who first translated baseball as yakyu, it was Shiki MASAOKA who first presented baseball as "yakyu"although it was pronounced differently at the time, moreover, it was he who coined the translations for foreign words such as "batter", "runner", "four balls", "straight ball", "fly ball", "short stop," changing them into "dasha", "sosha", "shikyu", "chokyu", "hikyu" and "tansha," which was the word used before Kanae CHUMAN later used the term "yugekishu."
つまり、「ベースボール」を「野球」と最初に翻訳したのは中馬庚であるが、読み方は異なるが「野球」という表記を最初に行い、さらに「バッター」｢ランナー｣｢フォアボール」「ストレート」「フライボール」「ショートストップ」などの外来語を「打者」「走者」「四球」「直球」「飛球」「短遮（中馬庚が遊撃手と表現する前の呼び名）」と日本語に訳したのは正岡子規である。