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Friday, August 22, 2014

Besuboru Guy—Sadaharu Oh, My...

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On this day in Round and Square History
1 August 2012—The Accidental Ethnographer: How to Read a Geil
1 August 2011—Longevity Mountain: Regaining the Ancient Path

[a] Individual and Society RF
可飛ばせ, 細川!
Let 'er rip, Hosokawa!  OR
Fly to base, Hosokawa!
—Common Japanese baseball chant
(Hosokawa is a common (enough) surname, like "Bradley")

And nobody in the history of baseball has ever let 'er rip (and flown all around the bases) more than 800 times...except one big Besubor-OH Guy.
[b] Mechanics RF

Arguably the best player ever to take up a bat (in Japan), Sadaharu Oh had 868 career home runs in a storied career.

And, Oh (yes, get used to it)...there is more. He didn't only post a Hall of Fame career. N(Oh), he has been a stellar manager and baseball official who guided Japan to the inaugural World Baseball Classic championship.

And don't give me crap about "Oh...he played in Japan." Take a look at how Japanese players are doing today in the American major leagues. I suspect strongly that Sadaharu would have sent plenty of OMGs toward the Fenway, Wrigley, and Yankee Stadium bleachers.  

Sadaharu Oh


H..OH..me Run

Oh, my...

[If you don't read Japanese, but want to have some sense of the Japanese kana and kanji in these posts, just copy the phrases and paste them into translation software such as Babylon or Google Translate].
[c] Lifelong Talent RF
[Originally posted on August 22, 2014]

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