Charlie Manuel, a star in Japan & an American original, fighting for his life in hospital

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Charlie Manuel, a star in Japan and an American original, fighting for his life in hospital
ROBERT WHITING
SEP 17, 2023

URL https://robertwhiting.substack.com/p/charlie-manuel-a-star-in-japan-and

TOKYO — I read with great concern of the failing health of Charlie Manuel, the former major league player and manager and star in Japan with the Yakult Swallows and the Kintetsu Buffaloes. Manuel made the news recently when he suffered a stroke while undergoing a medical procedure at a Florida hospital, with doctors saying “the next 24 hours were crucial” to his survival.

Manuel has suffered a whole host of medical problems during both his managerial career and subsequent retirement. He had survived a heart attack, quadruple bypass surgery, diverticulitis, diabetes and kidney cancer. He recently spent time in an intensive care unit due to complications from hernia surgery.

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Robert (Bob) Whiting is a best-selling, critically-acclaimed author who has written extensively on Japan, Japanese-American relations, and sports. His book You Gotta Have Wa was a Pulitzer Prize candidate and has recently been included in the Society for American Baseball Research’s (SABR) top fifty baseball books of the last fifty years"

https://sabr.org/50at50/books

His latest book is Tokyo Junkie, https://amzn.to/3MdUyr9 a memoir focused on his life in Japan that combines Japanese post-war history and Japanese-American relations with his own experiences. You can read the foreword here, and excerpts here:

https://www.fccj.or.jp/sites/default/files/2021-04/04-April-2021-Number1Shimbun-v14.pdf

This site - https://tokyojunkie.com/archive/ - is a work-in-progress archive of Bob’s work.

You can also subscribe to his Substack and podcast, Robert Whiting’s Japan, - https://substack.com/@robertwhiting - which provide regular analysis of Japanese sports, politics, and business.

More on Bob’s books here:

https://tokyojunkie.com/english-language-books/

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