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...other four - outfielder Mike Cameron and pitchers Freddy Garcia, Kazuhiro Sasaki and Jeff Nelson - are there thanks to Torre (and injuries to Yankee closer Mariano Rivera and token Devil Ray Greg Vaughn...
...Mariners are now made of players like Edgar Martinez, a quietly stellar hitter who will be batting .300 with 125 RBIs well into his 50s. Bret Boone and John Olerud are fine players and deserving, but superstars? More like hometown voting passion. Likewise Cameron, Garcia, Sasaki and Nelson - none of these guys are going to make Rodriguez-type money or do Griffey-type commercial endorsements...
...Dodgers in 1995, has already pitched a no-hitter and a one-hitter for the Boston Red Sox this year. Outfielder Tsuyoshi Shinjo, formerly with the Hanshin Tigers of the Japanese Central League, is captivating New York Mets fans with his bat, his glove and his charisma. And Kazuhiro Sasaki, Japan's all-time saves leader (and last year's American League rookie of the year), is leading the big leagues in saves with 21 (in 24 opportunities...
This year may be criti-cal. With two Japanese playing for the Seattle Mariners - Ichiro and vet-eran star reliever Kazuhiro Sasaki - Japan's pub-lic broadcasting company, nhk, may set a record for the most televised U.S. major league games in a single year. Says veteran sportswriter Kozo Abe, who has covered baseball on both sides of the Pacific: "The Japanese are finally beginning to realize how much better American big league baseball is - in real competition, that is, not goodwill games - in terms of power, speed, technique and depth. That could spell doom for Japan's game...
...March 1998, the city hired Sasaki Associates, an architectural and urban planning firm, to investigate possible sites for the new library...