The clout of Ohtani Shohei, Japan’s greatest baseball star
The man they call “Shotime” bears comparison with Babe Ruth
Only two players in the history of American baseball have hit 100 home runs and pitched 400 strikeouts. One was Babe Ruth, the American folk hero of the early 20th century. The other, as of September 3rd, is a modest young man from Iwate, a rural prefecture in northern Japan, called Ohtani Shohei.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Shotime”
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