Highlights?

I found that you can see highlights of good plays by the Hawks at their site. If you run your cursor over the links, at the bottom of the screen you can see what address they point to, generally labelled in English. If you go to the top, find schedule. There you have a link to each game. If you click on the game, you'll see a summary, and every so often there's a "100K" link to a good play by the Hawks.

If I could find something like this for other teams, that would be exactly what I'm looking for.

Again, I'm really interested in seeing some Central league baseball. Is there any way to do that from here in the US, other than the 20 dollars per month TV Japan option?

Thanks...

Once again I'm answering my own question here...I feel like I'm talking to myself, but I just thought others might be interested...

After much searching, I found highlights on the Giants site. If you go to http://www.giants.jp/G/highlight/movie.html, today the first link is an interview with the manager, second is a speech by a player, the third is a minute and a half highlight reel, showing the good plays by both Giants and Swallows. Enjoy!

The Chiba Lotte Marines website has interviews and highlights.

http://www.so-net.ne.jp/marines/topics/movie_list.html (Need Real Player)

This MLB page has highlights of the Hank Aaron-Sadahuru Oh 1974 Home Run Derby, Selective memorable Sadahuru Oh home runs, and other NPB plays.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/events/japan_series/history.jsp (Need Real Player)

The Marines page seems to be primarily post-game interview type stuff. Is that right?

The MLB site, particularly the clips of Sadaharu Oh, is amazing...

Thanks, and if anyone here knows of more let us know...

"The Marines page seems to be primarily post-game interview type stuff. Is that right?"

It's mostly post-game interviews, but there is some highlights there. Like the 2005 Marines season preview below.

http://www.marines.co.jp/video/ram/mmovie/0329_special01b.ram

The Marines website has highlights of Game 2 up and the post game interview of Bobby Valentine also.

http://www.marines.co.jp/video/ram/mmovie/1009_digest-b.ram

Also, the Chiba Lotte Marines website has highlights of Game 1 of the playoffs too.

http://www.marines.co.jp/video/ram/mmovie/1008_po-b.ram

The Nippon Ham Fighters have highlights of their games at their website.

http://www.fighters.co.jp/score05/movie_list.php (Need Windows Media Player)

Thanks - these are great links. I think we should keep each other posted for the rest of the season's playoff videos, and then when next season gets underway maybe develop some sort of master list so it can all be easily found.

This page has videos of former Yomiuri Giant pitcher Katsuhito Mizuno who played from 1984, 86-91, and 93-96.

http://www.awano-kintaro.jp/video.html (need Windows Media Player)

This page has clips of manager Tatsunori Hara with his as manager of the Yomiuri Giants and of his career with the Yomiuri Giants.

http://www.hara-spirit.net/tv.html# (need Windows Media Player)

Also, the Orix Buffaloes have a 2005 Movie up now. You need the latest Flash Player to play it. To get the latest Flash Player, go to Macromedia's website to get it:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/

The video is below:

http://www.buffaloes.co.jp/movie/index.asp

The Hanshin Tigers have a CL Champion Website up, with videos. To select the videos go to Player Menu, and select the player you want, and then the movie.

http://v2005.hanshintigers.jp/2005/index.html

The Chiba Lotte Marines website has a highlight video of Game 1 of the Nippon Series up on their website now. As you can see from this video, the fog was very bad late and it led to the game being called after seven innings.

http://www.marines.co.jp/video/ram/mmovie/1022_digest-b.ram (Need Real Player)

The Chiba Lotte Marines website has a highlight video of Game 2 up now too, this time their was no fog.

http://www.marines.co.jp/video/ram/mmovie/1023_digest-b.ram

I just saw the "highlights of the Japanese league" on the MLB page - ha! That was a blast from the past. Taiyo Whales, Kawasaki Stadium, Nankai Hawks, the Lucky Zone in Koshien, Nishinomiya Stadium and the Hankyu Braves, the Lions deep blue uniforms with no roof over Tokorozawa. I wonder if the people watching that know the highlights are at best 17 years old?

"Taiyo Whales, Kawasaki Stadium, Nankai Hawks, the Lucky Zone in Koshien, Nishinomiya Stadium and the Hankyu Braves, the Lions deep blue uniforms with no roof over Tokorozawa."

That is old, the Whales were before the BayStars, the Nankai Hawks before Daiei, the Hankyu Braves before Orix, and the Lions deep blue uniforms were a long time ago. I've never realized those highlights were that old.

Another video is up on the Chiba Lotte Marines website, highlighting the Marines parade celebrating their Nippon Series and Asian Series victory.

http://www.marines.co.jp/video/ram/mmovie/1120_parade-b.ram (Need Real Player)

Video is up on the Nippon Ham Fighters website of their Fan Festival 2005.

http://www.fighters.co.jp/team/index.html (Need Windows Media Player)

Koji Akiyama's page has three movies up in Windows Media Player, Real Player, and Quick Time.

http://www.koji-akiyama.com/movie/large/movie.wmv
http://www.koji-akiyama.com/movie/large/movie.rmvb
http://www.koji-akiyama.com/movie/large/movie.mov

Here's a load of movies:

http://www.japanbaseballdaily.com/yakyuvideo.html

Here's some more great historical highlights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly3aIYSURIk&search=Japanese%20Baseball (This is of Randy Bass, Masuyuki Kakefu, and Akinobu Okada going back-to-back in 1985)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtTWW6vjzDU&search=NPB (This is BayStars closer Marc Kroon breaking the NPB fastest pitch record at 161 km)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrj3Cvwi3U&search=NPB (Here is a quite hilarious one of Dragons great Hiromitsu Ochiai and Lions pitcher Osamu Higashio)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnuyAuPrUZU&search=NPB (This is of Dragons outfielder Kosuke Fukudome's 100th Home Run)

Here is a highlight reel of the 2005 Hanshin Tigers [Link (Need Flash Player)]