Tag: Hideo Nomo
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Don’t ‘Throw Until You Die’
by The New York Times Editorial Board, quoting Robert Whiting (Jul 15, 1995) — The New York Times Two decades after Commodore Matthew Perry forced Japan out of isolation in 1854, the Japanese started playing baseball. This year Hideo Nomo, the 26-year-old imported pitching star of the Los Angeles Dodgers, has emerged to remind Americans…
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Nomo’s legacy should land him in Hall of Fame
by Robert Whiting (Oct 24, 2010) It is doubtful that Hideo Nomo and Don Nomura realized the full significance of what they were doing back in 1995 when they defied Nippon Professional Baseball and migrated to the United States. But many of the changes that followed in the wake of their actions may never have…
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Tireless work ethic earned Nomo respect in majors
by Robert Whiting (Oct 17, 2010) Hideo Nomo’s most significant accomplishment may have been making the Japanese game respectable in the eyes of the rest of the world. Few Major League Baseball executives were interested when agent Don Nomura began to shop him to teams in North America. Most of them thought Japanese baseball Triple-A…
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Nomo blazed trail, helped mend fences with move
by Robert Whiting (Oct 3, 2010) The history of the Japan-America baseball relationship can be divided into two eras: Pre-Nomo and Post-Nomo. Younger readers may find it difficult to believe but before Hideo Nomo went to the United States to become a star for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995, most Americans did not even…
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Contract loophole opened door for Nomo’s jump
by Robert Whiting (Oct 10, 2010) Hideo Nomo was born to a working-class family in Osaka in 1969 – his father, Shizuo, was a big, broad-shouldered fisherman turned postal worker and his mother, Kayoko, a part-time supermarket employee. He was a naturally shy, taciturn youth who hid his emotions, even from his own parents. Said…
