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...Japan to congratulate the Yomiuri Giants' first baseman Sadaharu Oh, 37, for hitting his 756th home run (TIME, Sept. 12)-and topping the U.S. major league record set by Aaron himself in 1976. After a few words to the 45,000 Japanese fans in Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium, Hank, clad in mufti, slammed a ball into the leftfield bleachers while the crowd chanted: "Aaron, Aaron, Aaron!" Hammerin' Hank even toted along a special present for Oh, who has a peculiar habit of raising his right leg in the air before the pitch. Aaron's gift...
THIS IS THE MOMENT ALL JAPAN HAS BEEN WAITING FOR blazed the sign above Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium last week. In the third inning of a game between the Yomiuri Giants and the Yakult Swallows, First Baseman Sadaharu Oh, 37, blasted a low, inside pitch into the rightfield stands 377 ft. away. It was his 756th career home run-one more than the American major league record set in 1976 by Hank Aaron. Declared Oh, who was promptly named first holder of a National Hero Honors Order by the government: "I have finally put down an unbearable burden." Aaron...
...Yomiuri Giants. Oh has 634 lifetime home runs against Aaron's 733 and expects to pass Aaron's total one day. At their Saturday contest, each batter will select a pitcher and then use half an hour trying to rap baseballs out of Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium. For his appearance, Aaron will make $50,000, win or lose. As for Oh, he warms up for each game by gulping down a secret mixture of Korean ginseng and honey, and expects to emerge victorious. "I'm younger than he," says Oh politely, "and I'm afraid...
...abroad what it has done in the U.S. In Britain, AMF now has eight Pinspotter-equipped bowling centers; in operation and another 52 planned. In Japan, where the bowling craze is just beginning to hit, the company has contracted to automate 100 new lanes, including a new center in Korakuen Park, Tokyos equivalent of Yankee Stadium. In Australia, the first year's production of AMF's Sydney Pinspotter factory is already sold out. In all, AMF has installed or on order 2,800 Pinspotters in 17 foreign countries, counts on the nascent global bowling boom to substantially increase...
Eager as Dodger fans, people began lining up, fortified with fish, rice and camp stools, outside the great, grey Korakuen Stadium 30 hours before the first game against the Yomiuri Giants, the all-Japan champions. The Americans won, 7 to 0 but the Japanese didn't seem to mind. "The Americans will obviously continue the winning," explained one earnest, bespectacled university student, "because of the legs and arms which are longer...