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Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks chairman Sadaharu Oh, whose 868 home runs are the most by a professional baseball player, said Friday he has married for a second time. "This is the 10th year we've been living together, so it's time to draw the line and make ...
Hall of Famer Sachio Kinugasa, whose 2,215 consecutive games played remain a Japan pro baseball record, died of colon cancer Monday at 71, an informed source said. Nicknamed "Iron Man," Kinugasa played for the Hiroshima Carp from 1965 to 1987 and was the Central League's ...
Hall of Fame skipper Tatsunori Hara reflects on Alex Ramirez's guts, father's advice
On the day of his induction into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame, Tatsunori Hara gave praise to one of his former players, current Yokohama BayStars manager Alex Ramirez. Ramirez, the only foreign-born player to join Japan's iconic 2,000-hit club, has called Hara, his skipper ...
Hawks reliever Dennis Sarfate named Matsutaro Shoriki Award recipient
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks closer Dennis Sarfate on Thursday became just the second player to win the prestigious Matsutaro Shoriki Award in 16 years and the first foreign-registered player. The award, sponsored by the Yomiuri Shimbun and named after the man who was the driving force ...
Hawks, BayStars get ready for pivotal Game 6
One day after a win that made the Japan Series an actual, well, series, the Yokohama BayStars were back on the field in Fukuoka on Friday night. The odds of either of those things happening after the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks opened up a 3-0 lead ...
Hawks capture Pacific League pennant
There shouldn't have been any questions about which team was the best in the Pacific League this season. Still, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks went out and made it official just in case. Yuki Yanagita hit a two-run home run in the fourth and had an RBI ...
Giants enduring historic losing streak
In their 83 years of existence, the Yomiuri Giants have never had a stretch quite this bad. The rapidly sinking Kyojin reached new depths on Wednesday night after Shingo Ishikawa struck out to end a 3-0 loss to the Seibu Lions at MetLife Dome. It ...
Buck Martinez looks back on inaugural WBC, remains pleased with global growth of game
Former Team USA skipper Buck Martinez said he recalls everything from the game in Anaheim, California, where his team and manager Sadaharu Oh's Japan squad squared off in the second round of the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006. "I recall me exchanging the lineup ...
Legend Nagashima rekindles memories of an unforgettable life in baseball
It was good seeing former Yomiuri Giants third baseman and manager Shigeo Nagashima visiting the team's spring training camp in Miyazaki earlier this month. He just turned 81 this past week and is visibly handicapped by a stroke suffered in 2004 that limits movement ...
Hiroshi Arakawa, the batting coach of baseball legend Sadaharu Oh at the Yomiuri Giants in the 1960s famous for equipping him his flamingo stance, died Sunday of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Tokyo. He was 86. Arakawa joined the Mainichi Orions in 1953 and ...
Baseball legend Sadaharu Oh turned back the clock on Sunday, when he pinch hit in an exhibition against a team of former Taiwan stars. Oh, whose father is from China, was instrumental in the development of pro baseball in Taiwan and is idolized there as ...
