{"id":19708,"date":"2019-03-27T00:43:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T07:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=19708"},"modified":"2026-09-08T09:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:09:59","slug":"happy-birthday-dee-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/happy-birthday-dee-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Dee Brown!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19709\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18132537-dee-brown-seibu-lions.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19709\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18132537-dee-brown-seibu-lions.jpg\" alt=\"\u5fdc\u63f4\u6b4c Dermal Brown\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dee Brown of the Seibu Lions fight song (\u5fdc\u63f4\u6b4c)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dee Brown, formerly of my Oakland A&#8217;s (for three at bats anyway&#8211;two of which ended with a strike out), played for my Japanese team, the Seibu Lions, as well.  This card, the cheerleader is holding, shows his fight song which can be translated as:<br \/>\n<P>I believe you <BR>I believe you<BR>Shoot and flap far with the crack of the bat<P>I&#8217;m guessing the &#8220;I believe you&#8221; part should actually be &#8220;I believe in you&#8221; and the rest is basically asking for a home run or a well-hit ball. Rather than a walk-out song, like we have in the USA, in Japan these individualized fight songs are played\/sung throughout a player&#8217;s at bat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dee Brown, formerly of my Oakland A&#8217;s (for three at bats anyway&#8211;two of which ended with a strike out), played for my Japanese team, the Seibu Lions, as well. This card, the cheerleader is holding, shows his fight song which can be translated as: I believe you I believe youShoot and flap far with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[82,105,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19708"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33895,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708\/revisions\/33895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}