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Awesome journalism. Syringe font? Amazing. Barry Bonds did his thing, broke the 755 mark, that from when I was a little kid thought was impossible. I remember the Hank Aaron baseball cards which I couldn't get, were the most coveted for me. More than Mantle, DiMaggio, Ruth, Pete Rose, George Brett, all of them. The record is now in the hands of Barry Bonds, and guess what? I have his rookie card. It's too bad, I care more about the graphics of the NY Post than Bonds, the record, or even the controversy. I also no longer care about the Hank Aaron card as well. He's now number 2, soon to be number three when A-Rod does his thing in a number of years. But don't forget the number you should care about?
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That's the real number. As the Beastie Boys said in "Hey Ladies", "And I've got more hits than Sadaharu Oh." It should be homers, but oh well, they're close enough.
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posted by gr @ PERMLINK: 10:23 AM
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Wow, never knew about this guy. That's really fascinating and amazing.
Eric, thanks for posting this. I just remembered his retirement. I'm sure million other people in Japan watched the special retirement event for Sadaharu Oh (We called 'Wang-chan' in old days...He's a Taiwanese Japanese) on TV at home and cried. He was my hero when I was kid growing up in Japan even though I didn't care much about baseball. The story of Wan-chan and his baseball coach Shigeo Nagashima -especially the story of Oh's 'ippon-ashi-dahou' (one leg batting method) was very popular in Japan and it inspired kids in Japan to imitate him. The coach Nagashima was always hilarious and they often appeared together in Japanese cartoons for kids for some reason... fumiko
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