Like Gwen Stefani, we\u2019re big on Japanese culture. OK, so maybe not exactly like Gwen Stefani.\u00c2\u00a0Maybe more like Bob Horner<\/a>. Remember him?<\/p>\n

Horner was long our favorite Atlanta Braves player when we were back in the day. We saw him hit four home runs in a game against the Expos, and he had a single, colorful season<\/a> playing for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in Japan, where he was best known for\u2026. \u00c2\u00a0 oh, but we digress.<\/p>\n

What we wanted to tell you about was the\u00c2\u00a0cool chopsticks<\/a> a Japanese company is making from baseball bats<\/a> broken in Nippon Professional Baseball League games. These chopsticks feature NPB team logos, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a big hit with Japanese fans. Now we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on the hunt for a set<\/a> of Tokyo Yakult Swallows chopsticks, though we lack the digital dexterity to put them to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like Gwen Stefani, we\u2019re big on Japanese culture. OK, so maybe not exactly like Gwen Stefani.\u00c2\u00a0Maybe more like Bob Horner. Remember him? Horner was long our favorite Atlanta Braves player when we were back in the day. We saw him hit four home runs in a game against the Expos, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}