![]() ![]() ![]() I remembered telling them that it was too bad that NPB rules prohibited Japanese stars from leaving Japan to play in the States, because there were other players besides who could also make an impact. I told him Nomo’s fastball was faster than most MLB pitchers’ fastballs and that there was no one in America capable of throwing a forkball like Nomo. In fact, at the end of that season, I gave a speech at famed Occidental College in Los Angeles, when the trade paperback version of You Gotta Have Wa first came out, and I cited Nomo when one of the students asked me during the Q&A period after the lecture if there were any Japanese players who were capable of becoming stars in MLB. In the essay, I ranked him up there with the best pitchers in MLB at the time, including Randy Johnson. The first time was an essay for the Shukan Asahi during his fabulous rookie season in 1990 season, when I was doing a weekly column for that magazine, and Nomo was setting the baseball world afire with his tornado windup and his dramatic strikeouts. It is the product of several dozen interviews with people who knew and/or played with Nomo and a lengthy search through newspaper and magazine files dating back to 1990 when I first saw Nomo pitch for the Kintetsu Buffaloes.Īlthough this is the first book I have done about Nomo, I have written about him in several other venues over the years. TOKYO - This is a book about Hideo Nomo, the baseball player and social icon, as I view him. ![]()
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