Baseball: Japanese sluggers begin spring camp batting practice ahead of WBC

FORT MYERS, Florida - Major League Baseball sluggers set to join Japan's national team for the upcoming World Baseball Classic took batting practice Sunday as their clubs opened spring training camp.

In Glendale, Arizona, Chicago White Sox infielder Munetaka Murakami, who moved from Nippon Professional Baseball's Yakult Swallows this season, hit a double in three at-bats during a simulated session.