Today was opening day for baseball in Japan. Here in Nagoya, the Dragons were defeated by the Carp in 10 innings. Better luck tomorrow, Dragon baseball players. Every year the subway station near the Nagoya Dome is decorated with posters of all the players and some other photos from memory lane. This year, you can see every uniform the team has ever worn. The 1948 uniform was unusual because "Doragons" was written on the front instead of "Dragons." Doragons is taken directly from how the word is written in the Japanese katakana. Apparently the team had only been known as the Dragons for a year and hadn't had the name written on the uniform before. According to Japanese Wikipedia, the spelling was a mistake, but the team didn't have enough funds to correct the error and used the jerseys for the year.
One other thing of note, all of those lines pointing at the uniform just tell you what color each part of the uniform is. This seems like sort of an odd choice to do for a color drawing.
I know it's easy to get fixated on the baseball, 1948, and competition in general. But, "it's a bugs life" truly is the philosophical proverb it sounds, so don't get too fixated. Right? http://www.japanesebugfights.com
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