Word: shigetoshi
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...Hideki leaves, it's a tragedy," says Jun Ikushima, a Tokyo reporter and co-author with Seattle Mariners reliever Shigetoshi Hasegawa of the book My Way to Study English, which became a best seller in Japan. "Hideki's the best player in Japan now, and the Giants are the symbol of Japanese baseball. It's bigger than Ichiro leaving. We depend on Hideki for so much?his popularity, his dynamism?that if he goes, I can't imagine what will happen. I will feel emptiness. It will be the beginning of the destruction of Japanese baseball...
...April, Suzuki came up to bat against Shigetoshi Hasegawa, the Anaheim Angels reliever who once was a teammate of Suzuki's for the Orix Blue Wave. It was the first time an Asian hitter had faced an Asian pitcher in American ball. What happened was a less-than-ringing endorsement for Adjustment, Hasegawa's book about adapting to life and baseball in the U.S. Suzuki slapped the first pitch he saw for a single. "I know he wrote a book, but I haven't read it," Suzuki later said...
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