Before Dice-K, there was Mashi

extrapolater posted 6/19/2007 from extrapolater.wordpress.com [flag]

Looking back for the very first major league player from Japan. Think San Francisco - 1965. [link]

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Giants Roundup: Time Doesn’t Heal All Wounds. Right, Cody Ransom?
Published 6/22/2007 by Say Hey at Say Hey: A Bay Area Sports Blog
... Before the Shinjo Era dawned, the Giants were home to the first Japanese baseball player in the league, when the summer of 1962 brought 20-year-old reliever Masanori “Mashi” Murakami to the Bay. [The Extrapolator] ...

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