Kirk here with a hometown-boy-makes-good story. MURAKAMI Munetaka, who played for Kyushu Gakuin in high school, has set a world record. Apparently, even Babe Ruth wasn’t ever able to his a home run at each of five consecutive at bats, as MURAKAMI did.

By the way, Kyushu Gakuin will be playing in this year’s Koshien Tournament and Munetaka’s little brother Keita is an important player on the team.

I might add that Kyushu Gakuin had a few players who came down with COVID-19 so they missed the opening ceremonies and the schedule had to be adjusted but it looks like they’ll be able to play