Oh Sadaharu
(b. 1940), Japanese baseball player. Oh hit 868 home runs during a 22-year career with the Yomiuri Giants from 1959 to 1980. Born in Tokyo, Oh joined the Giants in 1959 out of Waseda Jitsu...
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President George W.
Bush dined together Thursday with casual conversation including on
Daisuke Matsuzaka, the Japanese pitcher playing for the Bost...
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Hideki Asai pitched 4-1/3 scoreless innings in emergency relief
Thursday, leading the Rakuten Eagles to a 3-1 win in a sweep of the
Softbank Hawks in the Pacific League.
Asai (1-0), taking...
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Boxing: Naito beats Daiki Kameda to retain WBC flyweight crown
TOKYO - Champion Daisuke Naito won a unanimous decision against
14th-ranked challenger Daiki Kameda to retain his W...
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The Softbank Hawks won the right to negotiate a deal with Toyo
University right-hander Shota Oba in the first round of Japanese
baseball's amateur draft on Monday.
Softbank won the six-tea...
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The Softbank Hawks won the right to negotiate a deal with Toyo
University right-hander Shota Oba in the first round of Japanese
...
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Nippon Ham Fighters highly touted rookie slugger Sho Nakata took
the spotlight Friday as spring training got under way for all 12
clubs in Japanese baseball ahead of the 2008 season.
Nakat...
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Baseball: Hawks owner voices hope Oh will stay at helm for life
FUKUOKA - Softbank Hawks owner Masayoshi Son reiterated his
desire Wednesday to have manager Sadaharu Oh in a Hawk...
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Daisuke Hayakawa hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the fourth
inning and Jose Ortiz added a solo homer in the next frame as the
Lotte Marines downed the Softbank...
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Oh Sadaharu
Abe, Bush talk over dinner about Matsuzaka, tree, Lincoln
