TOKYO — Twenty minutes from the Tokyo Dome sits another of Japan’s most revered ballparks, the 99-year-old Meiji Jingu Stadium, one of the few fields still in use anywhere that can claim Babe Ruth as a batter. Jingu’s home club, the Yakult Swallows, held a spring exhibition Tuesday afternoon against the Hanshin Tigers, creating a crosstown doubleheader opportunity for fans lucky enough to also have tickets for the Dodgers-Cubs season opener at the Dome that night.
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Swallows fans bob small umbrellas at their seats during coordinated cheers — an umbrella dance — and unlike at the Tokyo Dome, a contest at Jingu is open-air, a gorgeous scene on the right
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