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That's N-O-O-O-M dot com to sign up for your trial today. Welcome everyone to Long Ball Legacies, where we here on the Pitchellless Podcast Network come together every single Friday to take

a look at baseball's greatest players, its role players, those who helped shape the story of

our favorite game throughout its history.

And then we try to rank them and compile us of who are the most

important players for telling the story of the game of baseball.

I'm your host, Daniel Port.

Thank you so much for joining me here today.

I'm really excited about today's episode.

It is going to be a ton of fun.

I mentioned last week after going through and doing

a couple Negro League players and talking about women in baseball last week, I wanted to piggyback on

the excitement and fun of the World Baseball Classic and Japan's thrilling win in the World Baseball

Classic to spend the next couple weeks talking about Japanese players

and who are the greatest players from Japan and what was their impact on American

baseball and global baseball and Japanese baseball and all that stuff. And with that in mind,

I figured who better to start with than Shohei Otani, the star of the World Baseball

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