One bit of baseball trivia reads, “In Showa 36 [1961], Inao from the Western Raul team had Japan’s highest batting average at .353.” The word “Raul” is puzzling until one looks at the Japanese text to see its mention of “Nishitetsu”—literally West Rail, the former parent company of the team now called the Saitama Seibu Lions. The Japanese text, unlike the English translation, correctly states that Kazuhisa Inao pitched 353 strikeouts that year, a single-season record at the time. It says nothing about batting averages. Elsewhere, a reference to Kuwata being affected by the 1966 Italian movie Africa Addio is turned into a reference to the 1985 U.S. film Out of Africa—which wasn’t shot until nearly 20 years after the manga was published.
— COMICS REVIEW / Translation bat-mangled in ‘Bat-Manga!’ : DY Weekend : Features : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)
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