In 1992, when his son Will would have been nine, outfielder Max Venable began a two-year stint playing for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan. Over a decade later, the experience would at partly inspire the younger Venable’s senior thesis for his anthropology degree at Princeton, which was titled, “The Game and Community: An Anthropological Look at Baseball in America and Japan.”
“I think I got a B,” Venable said. “I think a lot of people would be upset with a B. I was pumped.”
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