大象传媒

Forty years ago, Haruki Murakami wasn鈥檛 yet a famous Japanese writer. He was a young baseball fan living in Tokyo. That鈥檚 where he first saw Dave Hilton, an American baseball player who played for the Yakult Swallows. Reporter Bradley Campbell explains how Hilton鈥檚 performance helped launch Murakami鈥檚 career.

Picture: Dave Hilton, an American baseball player who joined a Tokyo team in the 1970s. Courtesy of Dave Hilton