Word: nishitetsu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nicknamed "Sai," which means rhinoceros. He began his baseball career as a catcher ("The school team was short of a catcher, and I did not know the catcher's position was scorned"), switched to pitching in high school; signed by the Nishitetsu Lions, Inao helped pitch his team to pennants in 1956 and 1957, won a total of 56 games in two years. This year, with the season two-thirds gone, the Lions were 10½ games out of first place-despite the fact that Inao had already won 16 games. Inao solved that problem with a late-season...
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