Baseball: Former Yankee Tanaka to pitch for Japan's Olympic team

Masahiro Tanaka, who rejoined the Pacific League's Rakuten Eagles this year after seven seasons with the New York Yankees, was among the 24 players named Wednesday to Japan's Olympic baseball team for the Tokyo Games.Tanaka is the lone holdover from Japan's team at the last Olympic baseball tournament at the 2008 Beijing Games, when a star-packed Japanese team failed to win a medal."I have frustrating memories," said Tanaka, who allowed no runs in seven innings over three games in 2008. "I want to do whatever I can to win a medal this time.""I have to go in with the determination to be that…READ FULL ARTICLE