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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Hideo Nomo, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Ichiro Suzuki, Hideki Matsui, Hiroki Kuroda, Kosuke Fukudome, Akinori Iwamura, Tomo Ohka, Takashi Saito, Masahide Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Koji Uehara, Sadaharu Oh, Ken Takahashi, Junichi Tazawa, Kenshin Kawakami, Ryota Igarashi, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Hisanori Takahashi, Yasuhiko Yabuta, Shuhei Takada, Hideki Okajima, Yoshio Yoshida. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Hideo Nomo (野茂 英雄, Nomo Hideo, né le 31 août 1968 à Ōsaka, Japon) est un ancien joueur japonais de baseball qui a joué notamment avec les Ōsaka Kintetsu Buffaloes dans le Championnat du Japon de baseball et avec les Dodgers de Los Angeles en Ligue majeure de baseball où il a été élu Recrue de l'année en 1995. Pendant ses 15 saisons en Ligue majeure, il a mené deux fois le classement des retraits sur prises (1995 et 2001) et a lancé deux matchs sans point ni coup sûr. Diplôme du lycée Seijyo Kogyo en 1986, Hideo Nomo participe aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1988 à Séoul. Il termine deuxième du tournoi de baseball avec l'équipe du Japon de baseball, sans pour autant décrocher une médaille officielle, le baseball étant sport de démonstration. En 1989, il est sélectionné par les Kintetsu Buffaloes au premier tour de la draft de la NPB et débute sa carrière professionnelle lors de la saison 1990. Il finit sa première saison avec un bilan de 18 victoires pour 8 défaites et 287 retraits sur prises en 235 manches lancées. Le nombre de retraits élevé s'explique en partie par sa motion de lancer peu courante sur le monticule : il tourne le dos au frappeur, lève sa jambe de pivot et s'immobilise pendant une seconde avant le lancer. Sa motion lui a valu le surnom de Tornado (tornade), plus de 200 retraits sur prises e...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nippon Professional Baseball or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called Puro Yaky?, meaning Professional Baseball. Outside of Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation of the Greater Japan Tokyo Baseball Club in 1934 and the original Japanese Baseball League. NPB was formed when that league reorganized in 1950. Some notable Japanese players who have gone on to play in North America's Major League Baseball include Hideo Nomo, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Ichiro Suzuki, Tadahito Iguchi, Kenji Johjima, Hideki Matsui, So Taguchi, Hideki Irabu, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Hideki Okajima, Kazuo Matsui, Kazuhito Tadano, Hiroki Kuroda, Akinori Iwamura, Kosuke Fukudome, Koji Uehara, Kenshin Kawakami, and Takashi Saito. ... Read more

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How an Asian batting champ became American baseball's newest star!

Meet baseball's rookie sensation Ichiro Suzuki...from the top spot in Japan to the Seattle Mariners' right field.

Seven-time batting champion for Japan's Pacific League, he is a paradoxical combination of modesty and ego, calling himself simply "Ichiro." But when the Seattle Mariners signed him to a fourteen-million-dollar contract, scoffers said the 5-foot-9 inch, 156-pound Ichiro wasn't even in the ballpark. He proved them wrong. With fast legs and an even faster bat, he led the Mariners to their best start in franchise history.

Now, sportswriter Rob Rains takes an in-depth look at Ichiro and the new wave of talented Japanese players, including last year's Rookie of the Year, Kazuhiro Sasaki of the Seattle Mariners, and Hideo Nomo of the Boston Red Sox, former Yankee Hideki Irabu and Mets outfielder Tsuyoshi Shinjo. American fans are learning what the Japanese already know-- these amazing players are already mapping out baseball's future, proving that this grand slam Asian invasion is here to stay...

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This digital document is an article from Notable Sports Figures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1737 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Takes a close look at the people in sports who have captured attention because of success on the playing field, or controversy off the playing field. This work features biographies on more than 600 people from around the world and throughout history who have had an impact not only on their sport, but also on the society and culture of their times. It also includes not only the record-breakers that dominated and changed their sport, but also the controversial figures that made headlines even apart from athletic events. ... Read more

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Chapters: Matt Stairs, Hideo Nomo, Robin Ventura, Mickey Morandini, Tino Martinez, Jim Abbott, Atsuya Furuta, Kenjiro Nomura, Tom Goodwin, Ed Sprague, Jr., Rheal Cormier, Ben Mcdonald, Andy Benes, Kuo Lee Chien-Fu, Scott Servais, Mike Fiore (Baseball, Born 1966), Lin Chung-Chiu, Charles Nagy, Chiang Tai-Chuan, Lo Kuo-Chong, Lo Chen-Jung, Dave Silvestri, Peter Vogler, Wu Shih-Hsih. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 114. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hideo Nomo Nomo Hideo, born August 31, 1968 in Minato-ku, Osaka) is a Japanese former right-handed pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball. He achieved early success in Japan, where he played with the Kintetsu Buffaloes from 1990 to 1994. He then exploited a loophole to free himself from his Japanese contract and became the first Japanese-born Japanese major leaguer to permanently relocate to Major League Baseball in the United States. His successful debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995 is often credited with paving the road for the subsequent "wave" of Japanese players entering Major League Baseball. Nomo pitched over the span of 13 seasons in the American major leagues with 8 different teams, before retiring in 2008. He won the Rookie of the Year Award in 1995. He twice led the league in strikeouts and also threw two no-hitters (to date the only Japanese pitcher to throw even one). Nomo was on the silver medal winning Japanese baseball team at the 1988 Olympics, and the Kintetsu Buffaloes drafted him in 1989. Nomo debuted with them in 1990 and was an immediate success, going 188 but more impressively striking out 287 hitters in just 235 innings. The strikeout numbers are attributed to his unorthodox wind-up, where he turns his back to the hitter, raises his pivot leg, and freezes for a second before th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=228180 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Daisuke Matsuzaka, Masahiro Tanaka, Norichika Aoki, Tsuyoshi Wada, Hideo Nomo, Shigeo Nagashima, Koji Uehara, Hiromichi Ishige, Tsunemi Tsuda, Isao Harimoto, Takehiko Kobayakawa, Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Kenshin Kawakami, Kazuhiro Kiyohara, Tsuneo Horiuchi, Keiichi Yabu, Tatsunori Hara, Tomohito Ito, Tatsuhiko Kinjoh, Motoshi Fujita, Akinobu Okada, Norihiro Akahoshi, Tetsuya Yamaguchi, Satoshi Komatsu, Noboru Akiyama, Tatsuro Hirooka, Shigeru Takada, Kōichi Tabuchi, Kento Sugiyama, Hideyuki Awano, Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Ryo Kawashima, Itsuki Shoda, Makoto Kaneko, Tadashi Sugiura, Koji Mise, Makoto Kosaka, Hiromi Makihara. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: NPB MLB Japan National Team Daisuke Matsuzaka Matsuzaka Daisuke, born September 13, 1980 in Kanita, Aomori Prefecture) is a starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. He previously played for the Seibu Lions in Japan's Pacific League. He was selected the MVP of the inaugural and the second World Baseball Classic, and is an Olympic bronze medalist. Matsuzaka was born on September 13, 1980, in Aomori, Aomori Prefecture. He was named after Japanese high school star pitcher Daisuke Araki. Growing up in Koto, Tokyo, he studied kendo from the age of five to nine and began playing organized baseball when he was in 3rd grade. After excelling at the Little League and junior high level, Daisuke Matsuzaka was admitted into Yokohama High School, a baseball powerhouse, in the spring of 1996. By his second of three years, he had developed into the school's ace pitcher. Despite his early success, he would experience a setback that summer when he allowed a go-ahead wild pitch in the semi-final game of the Kanagawa Prefecture preliminary round of the National High School Baseball Championship (Summer Koshien). During that...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=496677 ... Read more