These types of "Japan so polite" stories are 50-50 real or absolute bullshit fabrication.
I question if it ever really happened just based on the logistics of passing anything around a huge crowd in an uncoordinated manner and having it end up at its origin point.
The weird thing to me is I can understand wanting the baseball as a collectors item, but why would you want to look at it for 5 seconds when there’s an actual game going on? You could see the ball in the air and in your hand, it’s going to look just like an other baseball. It’s not even signed yet (if she even managed to get it signed)
That's a genuine culture shock (compared to America at least). Is it true, is there a good source on this story?
These types of "Japan so polite" stories are 50-50 real or absolute bullshit fabrication.
I question if it ever really happened just based on the logistics of passing anything around a huge crowd in an uncoordinated manner and having it end up at its origin point.
The culture shock is someone thinking this wouldn't happen in the vast majority of societies lol
Americans and Brits would only do it if they knew in advance that it'd be televised, tbh. And they'd all be smiling like they're in on something
The weird thing to me is I can understand wanting the baseball as a collectors item, but why would you want to look at it for 5 seconds when there’s an actual game going on? You could see the ball in the air and in your hand, it’s going to look just like an other baseball. It’s not even signed yet (if she even managed to get it signed)
That's a good question.