Tag: fighters
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Otani and Nippon Ham
Robert Whiting (Dec 9, 2012) Congratulations to Nippon Ham for making a successful attempt to convince Shohei Otani to stay in Japan instead of going to the MLB as he earlier vowed to do. It had been widely believed that Otani was going to sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers, after he said he would…
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Sayonara Hillman-san
2010, Yukan Fuji – Robert Whiting Hillman left Japan at the end of the 2007 season, after winning two Pacific League pennant and a Japan Series crown for the Nippon Ham Fighters, saying that five years was the maximum a man should manage a baseball team, especially if that manager was a foreigner managing a…
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