S4, E4: THE LOOPHOLE

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Sports

4.5 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In 1995, star pitcher Hideo Nomo attempted to do what no Japanese player had done since 1965 - join Major League Baseball. Nomo and his agent hatched a plan to overcome the legal and cultural barriers that stood in his way, risking Nomo's career and reputation in Japan. The Loophole reveals how they pulled it off, launched "Nomo-mania," and transformed both American and Japanese baseball forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.4	Hello and welcome to 30 for 30 podcasts from ESPN Films and ESPN Audio.
0:46.4	My name is Jody Abergan.
0:50.2	Today, the winding path to Nomomonia.
0:58.0	Hideo Nomo took baseball by storm in 1995, seeming to appear out of nowhere with a crazy wind-up and unhittable stuff. Lately, of course, Japanese-born players have thrived in Major League Baseball.
1:02.0	Itiro Suzuki, Hideki Matsui, and Shohe Otani to name just a few.
1:08.0	But before Hideo Nomo, Japanese players were effectively banned from coming to
1:12.2	the major leagues. This is the little-known history of how that changed, thanks to a strong-world
1:17.5	player, a rebellious agent, and an obscure, overlooked clause in an old contract. Producer Andrew
1:24.2	Muscato brings us the story of The Loophole.
1:39.7	Every guy that came up to the plate when I'm on the mound,
1:43.8	it would get so noisy, and then the whole stadium would kind of rise up,
1:45.9	and everybody would get into it.
1:49.9	Rob Dibble thought he'd encounter Brock as baseball fans before.
1:52.6	That was until he played at the Tokyo Dome. They would have different noise makers and tambourines, trumpets, and it was so incredibly loud.
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