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Welcome everyone to Long Ball Legacies. My name's Daniel Port. Welcome here on the Pitcher List Podcast Network.

We're here as we are every single week to take a look at the players, the legends of the mythology,

to help tell the tale of baseball throughout its history. And I'm really excited about today's

episode. This was a really fun one. I know I say that

every week, but this one really hit close to home in many ways, and we'll get there in a minute.

But as last week we started talking about Shohei Otani, and we looked at, you know, how

incredible he was and what he's able to accomplish so far through his career as a two-way

player and frankly has his impact on Japanese baseball.

And we've also looked at Idros Suzuki in the past.

And this week I actually wanted to continue with the theme of looking at the greatest

Japanese baseball players of all time.

I decided for this week I wanted to talk about a player from Japan's past,

who spent his entire career playing in Japan's Nepal and professional baseball league,

who not only has it more home runs in his career than anyone else on the planet Earth,

but overcame nationalism and xenophobia to become a Japanese hero, the likes of which I don't know if we've ever seen here

in the United States. Imagine Michael Jordan, perhaps the most iconic athlete in the history of

American sports. And the impression that I get is that Jordan's popularity wouldn't hold a candle

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