Hoskins honored to take Players Oath in Japan

In sports, it’s normally the adults who preach about sportsmanship and fair play, while it’s up to the kids to absorb that information and hopefully take it to the field with them with an intent to do things the right way. But on Friday at the Tokyo Dome, the tables were turned, and the adults — namely, the players on both sides of the diamond participating in the Japan All-Star Series — were making a promise to the kids to, quite simply, behave themselves.