Baseball team to tour Japan with reading list, professors, to play historic games
Submitted on Friday, 8/1/2014, at 7:01 AM
By Peter Rooney
Amherst College played Williams College in the first intercollegiate baseball game 155 years ago. In August, the team travels to Japan to make history again, playing a series of games against Doshisha University, a private college in Kyoto founded by Joseph Hardy Neesima, Amherst Class of 1870.