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talk about the players who have had the greatest impact on telling the story of baseball and creating and crafting the mythology and legends of the most beautiful game played throughout the entire world.

As promised, this is going to be the third part or episode in my current series on

the greatest or some of the greatest Japanese players to ever play baseball, both overseas

and here in the U the u.s and i had mentioned last week that

there was one player i really wanted to cover when i started this series and that was hideo nomo

sometimes we celebrate the all-time rates and sometimes it's almost more important though

to acknowledge and celebrate those who pave the way for the all-time rates.

There are those who might not end up too highly on all-time lists or even our all-time

list here on the podcast or anything, but they might be just as important

telling the story of a sport or a player within that sport, sometimes through innovation,

sometimes through leading the way for future players, and some actually through making

cultural change.

In basketball, David Thompson, for instance, was a high-flying dunker, the likes of which the NBA had never really seen before, and he changed the way the game was played and served as the blueprint for Michael Jordan.

Dick Fosby changed the high jump in track and field forever by creating the Fosby flop in 1968, Now it's the standard technique across the entire event.

We all know the impact Jackie Robinson had

on shaping the cultural future of baseball

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