Baseball: NPB clubs must try to cut salary gap with MLB: DeNA owner

Japanese baseball teams need to find ways to reduce the salary gap with their Major League Baseball counterparts, Tomoko Namba, owner of the Japan Series champion DeNA BayStars, said Monday.Namba, the founder of mobile gaming firm DeNA Co., became the first woman to own a Japanese pro baseball club in January 2015 and tasted championship success for the first time 10 years later.DeNA also has B-League basketball's Kawasaki Brave Thunders and J-League football's third-division S.C. Sagamihara under its management."Our baseball has its own strengths, and it's good to see the growth of the gam…READ FULL ARTICLE