The overwhelming popularity of artist Takashi Murakami's MLB Tokyo Series merchandise has fueled another round of colorful ...

"The Dodgers are the team Hideo Nomo joined when he first played Major League Baseball, overcoming various obstacles," Murakami said. "His success had a significant impact on Japanese players ...

Stories like these, of the pitches that don't work out, are told far less often than the successes that permeate Pitching Ninja's sizzle reels. These failures are the banes of pitchers' existence, ...

He asked Hideo Nomo, the godfather of modern Japanese pitching, and Masahiro Tanaka, whose splitter led him to a pair of All-Star Games with the New York Yankees. Maeda never worried too much ...

The first Japanese who went to MLB after quitting the Japanese league was Hideo Nomo. He was just so brave that he could just give up on all kinds of honors he had and went to the States. That is ...