Team members of Shimohama Club baseball team work out in Akita, Akita prefecture, northern Japan June 21, 2018. Picture taken June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kiyoshi Takenaka
AKITA, Japan (Reuters) - On a recent weekday morning, a group of men in their 70s and 80s gathered for baseball practice just down the road from a junior high school where students were arriving to start the day.
At full strength, the Shimohama Club baseball team's 33 players outnumber the students.
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