Sadaharu Oh
Sadaharu Oh
Sadaharu Oh, also known as Wang Chen-chih, is a retired Japanese–Chinese baseball player and manager who played 22 seasons for the Yomiuri Giants in Nippon Professional Baseballfrom 1959 to 1980. Oh holds the world lifetime home run record, having hit 868 home runs during his professional career. He established many NPB batting records, including runs batted in, slugging percentage, bases on balls, and on-base plus slugging. In 1977, Sadaharu Oh became the first recipient of the People's Honor award. He...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth20 May 1940
CountryJapan
I don't know about the politics, but since it's named the World Baseball Classic, I would like to see the Cuban team there.
I never coached a team for a tournament like this, and never thought the pressure to be so high. Baseball is the best sport. Everyone has to work together. There is nothing more wonderful than that Japanese players did such a wonderful job and showed that to everyone in the world.
It's just unimaginable that this could have happened, or this did happen, in the U.S. where baseball is very famous and popular. And it's a pity that it was overruled.
It's unfortunate the play was overruled. It's just unimaginable this could have happened, this did happen, in the United States, where baseball is very famous and very popular.
This first World Baseball Classic is a great success and it showed a lot of positives to the baseball world, but I don't really know how the Olympic committee would perceive this success.
I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
This was for all of the fans back home in Japan.
We gave everything we had. We learned that our opponents' desire was higher than ours.
To be honest, I haven't felt this thrilled in a long time.
If we can win, there won't be any problem, we'll be happy with that. What happened happened. It's already in the past. It's done. So it's over. So what we're looking at is in the future.
Personally, I think Japan is the strongest team in Asia and we want to finish Pool A as the top team in the group.
I was really surprised the American team lost to the Mexican team.
I was really surprised that the American team lost to the Mexican team, because we thought somehow the Americans would be the world's best. And because of that notion, when we lost the second game in the second round, we never thought that we would be able to be playing in the next round here.