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ASU-Japan baseball

Baseball is the all-American pastime, but it had a global flair when the Sun Devils took on a recent opponent.

Players from Meiji University in Japan played an exhibition game at Arizona State University on March 15, and the experience was as much about learning as about scoring runs.

Video shot by Deanna Dent, edited by Ken Fagan/ASU Now

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