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Masanori Murakami (ζδΈ ι ε, Murakami Masanori, born May 6, 1944), nicknamed "Mashi", is a Japanese former baseball pitcher. He is notable for being the first ...
One of the players, pitcher Masanori Murakami, was named the California League Rookie of the Year while playing for the Fresno Giants (the San Francisco Giants' Class-A team). Giants executives were impressed with his talent and on September 1, 1964, Murakami was promoted, thus becoming the first Japanese player to play in MLB , as well as ...
That trailblazer was Masanori Murakami. As a 20-year-old reliever, Murakami journeyed to America in 1964 alongside two of his Nankai Hawks teammates to take part in a baseball exchange program ...
Masanori Murakami became the first Japanese player to appear in an American major league baseball game, coming to the mound during the 8th inning as a relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants in their game at Shea Stadium against the New York Mets.
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With full respect to Masanori Murakami, who played briefly with the San Fransisco Giants in 1964-65, Japan's odyssey in the Majors began with pitcher Hideki Nomo, the National League Rookie of the ...
May 6 is the 126th day of the year (127th in leap years) ... 1944 – Masanori Murakami, Japanese baseball player; 1945 – Jimmie Dale Gilmore, ...