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  fatloser at 10:49 AM JST - 3rd November

  T....T...Tttttt...Tommy Lasorda???? Oh, I seeeeeeeeeee, he went to bat for No'Mo. Why'd he have to wait 80 years for his prize??

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  bamboohat at 11:16 AM JST - 3rd November

  Tommy didn't go to bat for nomo, he went to bat for his organization. Nomo fulfilled a role, and was released when he couldn't provide anymore. That fact that he was Japanese was incidental.

  This award seems to want to implicate that The dodgers chose Nomo because he was Japaense above all else, which ain't true. The dodgers wanted to win, and Nomo wanted money.

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  BlackFlag at 11:43 AM JST - 3rd November

  c'mon rjd...you're late

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  Pukey2 at 12:03 PM JST - 3rd November

  c'mon rjd...you're late

  Bwah-hah-hah-hah! That's what I was thinking.

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  salchicha at 12:04 PM JST - 3rd November

  Foreigners?

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  timorborder at 02:02 PM JST - 3rd November

  Good to see Walter Mondale get an award. Perhaps it was for his stand against a certain Eikaiwa many years ago (laughing). Also find the award to Tommy Lasorda rather interesting. Tommy was the little boy who pulled his finger out of the dyke regarding Nomo-san. All the pressure built up over the years by Japanese players wanting to play in the US was released by his actions. Nomo, Ichiro, Matsuzaka, etc. have all gone to the US as a result of Lasorda. Don't know if the NPB would see this as a contribution to Japanese baseball.

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  bcbrownboy at 03:16 PM JST - 3rd November

  75 foreigners among 4,000 recipents Aha, going the way of Sumo. Better keep them out, or all the top spots will be foreigners soon enough.

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  gogogo at 05:13 PM JST - 3rd November

  What did the foreigners get their awards for? I would be interested to find out if they were foreigners with visas or "foreigners" with a Japanese passport.

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  moonbeams at 06:57 PM JST - 3rd November

  wow, foreigners are only 1 percent of the population, so 75 is a great number

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