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- Sadaharu Oh was the king
- of Japanese baseball. In
- fact, his last name means
- ΓÇ£king" in Japanese.
- Sadaharu slugged 868
- career home runs, setting an all-time pro-
- fessional baseball record.
-
- Sadaharu, the son of a Chinese father and a
- Japanese mother, was not always liked by
- the Japanese fans because he wasnΓÇÖt a full-
- blooded Japanese. But after he helped lead
- the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants to 12 Japan Series
- championships (including nine in a row!), he
- became the most popular sports figure in
- Japanese history.
-
- Not an especially big man at 5' 10" and
- 175 pounds, Sadaharu generated
-