Word: nomo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HIDEKI IRABU Yankees sign new Nomo to fill bleachers and improve important Japanese ratings...
...back the fans disillusioned by the 1994 strike, and the players are genuinely excited about facing the best of the other league. Now fans in San Diego will be able to see Ken Griffey Jr. in person, just as fans in Seattle will get their first look at Hideo Nomo. Imagine what the N.B.A. would be like if Michael Jordan never came to town...
...Nomo's success is the dominant reason major league teams covet Japanese pitchers. There are two in the Mets camp, and one of them, left-handed reliever Takashi Kashiwada, has a chance of making the team. The Boston Red Sox are saving a spot in the bullpen for Robinson Checo, a Dominican who pitched last year for the Hiroshima Carp...
...watched some of their top pitchers go West, Japanese fans are fearful that Kazuhiro Sasaki of the Yokohama Bay Stars, or Masumi Kuwata of the Yomiuri Giants, or maybe even a non-pitcher like Hideki Matsui, power hitter from the Tokyo Giants, will be next. Who else will follow Nomo? "To play in the major leagues is still the stuff dreams are made on," says Ikeda, paraphrasing The Tempest. If he and Valentine are right, then Irabu has the stuff championships are made on. And the tempest started by the Tornado could help turn the World Series into a true...
...find it hard to believe that his love of the Los Angeles Dodgers is because of their signing of Chan Ho Park and Hideo Nomo. His devotion to the team seems tied not to the players or even the city, but the organization...