Kintetsu Buffaloes Players - Hideo Nomo, Charlie Manuel, Mike Andrews, Tony Roig, Akinori Otsuka, Don Money, Chris Donnels, Tuffy Rhodes (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Hideo Nomo, Charlie Manuel, Mike Andrews, Tony Roig, Akinori Otsuka, Don Money, Chris Donnels, Tuffy Rhodes, Norihiro Nakamura, Ralph Bryant, Masato Yoshii, Chuck Essegian, Jim Traber, Billy Bean, Ozzie Canseco, Dick Davis, Vic Harris, Jim Gentile, Alvin Davis, Brian Shouse, Bob Milacki, Dave Roberts, Ben Oglivie, R. J. Reynolds, Luis Aquino, Phil Clark, Chris Arnold, German Rivera, Billy Smith, Ike Hampton, Gene Bacque, Johnny Ruffin, Buddy Bradford, David Green, Larry Wolfe, Clarence Jones, Hideyuki Awano, Jim Qualls, Kyle Abbott, Phil Leftwich, Dennis Powell, Masataka Nashida, Glenn Mickens, Yosuke Takasu, Mike Edwards, Motoyuki Akahori, Osamu Abe, Toshiya Adachi, Tetsuya Matoyama. Excerpt: Hideo Nomo Nomo Hideo, born August 31, 1968 in Minato-ku, Osaka) is a former right-handed pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball from Japan. 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 18-8 but more im...