Professional baseball in Japan the first American to play professional baseball in Japan when he joined the Dai Nippon Tokyo Yakyu Kurabu (Tokyo Giants) in December 1934, touring with them in 1935. Jimmy Bonna, Kiyomi "Slim" Hirakawa, Fumito "Jimmy" Horio, Kazuyoshi "George" Matsuura, Andrew "Bucky" Harris McGalliard (Japan's "Bucky Harris"), Herbert "Buster" North, Yoshio "Sam" Takahashi, and Tadashi "Bozo" Wakabayashi became the first Americans to play in Japan's professional baseball league in 1936. The American writer Robert Whiting wrote in his 1977 book "The Chrysanthemum and the Bat" that, While others have objected to characterizing the sport in these terms, many Japanese players and
Yasuhiro Yoshida could hardly play in the match and he moved to Regional Leagues club FC Gifu in 2006. Although he could not play in the match, the club was promoted to Japan Football League in 2007 and J2 League in 2008. From 2009, he played for FC Oribe Tajimi (2009) and Fujieda MYFC (2009-10). He retired end of 2010 season. After retirement, Yoshida became a coach for Yokogawa Musashino (later "Tokyo Musashino City FC") in 2011. He became a manager in 2013. He resigned end of 2017 season. Yasuhiro Yoshida Yoshida was born in Hiroshima on July 14, 1969. After graduating