A new baseball game based on a popular, decades-old toy version of the sport is allowing people with and without disabilities to experience the joys of the diamond.Universal Baseball, developed by Tokyo-based railcar maintenance firm Horie Sharyo Denso Corp., was played in New York on April 21, for the first time outside Japan, with former Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui appearing as a special guest.The game has been played about 200 times in Japan since 2019.A player hits the ball by pulling on a string connected to the bat. The cord only needs to be pulled one centimeter, requiring no physi…READ FULL ARTICLE
