More MLB gambling scandals likely in the future: Robert Whiting's Japan

More MLB gambling scandals likely in the future
ROBERT WHITING JUN 06, 2024
https://robertwhiting.substack.com/p/more-mlb-gambling-scandals-likely

TOKYO — Is this the tip of the iceberg?

I read with interest the news about the MLB ‘s lifetime ban of San Diego Padres utility infielder Tucupita Marcano, who had placed hundreds of bets on baseball, including 25 last year when he was a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates. MLB said Marcano, a lifetime .217 hitter over three major league seasons, had bet more than $150,000 on baseball from October 2022 through Nov. 1, 2023, $87,319 of which was directly on MLB-related action — winning just over 4% of his MLB-related wagers.

This is the second sports gambling scandal of the year. The first being Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter Ippei Mizuhara raiding his friend’s bank account to pay millions of dollars for bets on sports. Mizuhara has now pleaded guilty to fraud.

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TOKYO JUNKIE https://tokyojunkie.com/
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Robert (Bob) Whiting is a best-selling, critically-acclaimed author who has written extensively on Japan, Japanese-American relations, and sports. His book You Gotta Have Wa was a Pulitzer Prize candidate and has recently been included in the Society for American Baseball Research’s (SABR) top fifty baseball books of the last fifty years"

https://sabr.org/50at50/books

His latest book is Tokyo Junkie, https://amzn.to/3MdUyr9 a memoir focused on his life in Japan that combines Japanese post-war history and Japanese-American relations with his own experiences. You can read the foreword here, and excerpts here:

https://www.fccj.or.jp/sites/default/files/2021-04/04-April-2021-Number1Shimbun-v14.pdf

This site - https://tokyojunkie.com/archive/ - is a work-in-progress archive of Bob’s work.

You can also subscribe to his Substack and podcast, Robert Whiting’s Japan, - https://substack.com/@robertwhiting - which provide regular analysis of Japanese sports, politics, and business.

More on Bob’s books here:

https://tokyojunkie.com/english-language-books/

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