Word: nomo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York (Nomo 6-11) at Philadelphia (Byrd...
...Angeles (Nomo 1-2) at Milwaukee (Mercedes...
...Mets (Clark 0-0) at Los Angeles (Nomo...
...meantime, fans in Tokyo interrupted their morning commute to catch the games on two huge, open-air screens. While the Japanese don't feel as warmly toward Irabu as they do toward Hideo Nomo, whose quest to pitch in the majors was both earlier and purer, they are nonetheless proud. The headline in Asahi Shimbun--NEW YORK DRUNK ON IRABU'S FIRST VICTORY--was confirmed by the New York Post--BANZAI! Still, nobody expressed Irabu's debut better than his catcher. An hour after the game, Girardi sat at his locker and said, "To come to a new country...
...rest of the world. While Japan limits the number of foreign baseball players it imports, the country still wants to reach U.S. standards, so that a Japanese team could someday meet the American champs in a real World Series. That goal finally seems plausible, now that Japan's Hideo Nomo has become an All-Star in the U.S., and New York Yankee farmhand Hideki Irabu is mowing down American batters with 99 m.p.h. fast balls...