tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24294398.post8727667773480556537..comments2007-08-21T10:52:52.457-07:00grhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06201891791568746231noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24294398.post-56035247163849551042007-08-21T10:41:00.000-07:002007-08-21T10:41:00.000-07:00Eric, thanks for posting this. I just remembered his retirement. I'm sure million other people in Japan watched the special retirement event for Sadaharu Oh (We called 'Wang-chan' in old days...He's a Taiwanese Japanese) on TV at home and cried. He was my hero when I was kid growing up in Japan even though I didn't care much about baseball. The story of Wan-chan and his baseball coach Shigeo Nagashima -especially the story of Oh's 'ippon-ashi-dahou' (one leg batting method) was very popular in Japan and it inspired kids in Japan to imitate him. The coach Nagashima was always hilarious and they often appeared together in Japanese cartoons for kids for some reason... fumikosonicladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101728631313092742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24294398.post-48724813352806104872007-08-09T10:59:00.000-07:002007-08-09T10:59:00.000-07:00Wow, never knew about this guy. That's really fascinating and amazing.Peter V.noreply@blogger.com