Japan baseball fans leap into river as ‘Curse of the Colonel’ lifted

OSAKA (JAPAN) – Dozens of baseball fans in Osaka hurled themselves into a filthy city-centre river and partied long into the night after the Hanshin Tigers won the Japan Series for only the second time in their history.

The country’s most passionately-supported team beat the Orix Buffaloes in the final game of the best-of-seven series late on Sunday…