ESPN Online Does Ichiro

[Peter Grilli]

This is a terrific piece about Ichiro!   Thanks, Mark Anderson, for
circulating it.
The photo portraits of Ichiro, his father, Ichiro with Matsui, etc. are also
wonderful!

This is a first-rate piece of writing.  Fine insights, elegantly expressed.

Peter Grilli

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  Subject: ESPN Online Does Ichiro


  Jim Caple of ESPN has a smart feature article on Ichiro today that
wrestles with the hunger for Asian exoticism and gets over it. It's still
framed in national categories, Japanese vs. American, but Caple concludes
Ichiro is a hybrid. Pretty good job for mass media, I thought. He certainly
does better than a lot of Euro film studies people do. Don't even get me
started on the New York Times' periodic cultural essentialist meltdowns. The
best thing about this article is that sometimes it's even funny. Check it
out: The Art of Being Ichiro

Mark Anderson
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