SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The best he can recall, Yoshinobu Yamamoto was in a classroom when he made his first World Baseball Classic memory.
Yamamoto was a fifth grader at Inbe Elementary School in the Japanese countryside town of Bizen. One afternoon in March, his teacher turned on the television for the tournament final, in which defending champion Japan played archnemesis South Korea.
“I have recollections of it being in the classroom, but I’m a little uncertain,” Yamamoto said.
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