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Hideo Nomo

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Hideo Nomo (野茂 英雄, Nomo Hideo; born August 31, 1968) is a Japanese former baseball pitcher who played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB). He achieved early success in his native country, where he played with the Kintetsu Buffaloes from 1990 to 1994. He then exploited a loophole to free himself from his contract, and became the first Japanese major leaguer to permanently relocate to MLB in the United States, debuting with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995. Nomo became just the second Japanese player in American professional baseball after Masanori Murakami who played in MLB three decades earlier, and Nomo's star status is often credited with opening the door for Japanese players in MLB. Nomo pitched over a span of 13 seasons in the American major leagues with eight different teams, before retiring in 2008. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Hideo Nomo is the 35th most popular baseball player (down from 30th in 2024), the 1,821st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,506th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Baseball Player.

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Hideo Nomo ranks 35 out of 91. Before him are Mariano Rivera, Tom Seaver, Mark McGwire, Derek Jeter, Cal Ripken Jr., and Greg Maddux. After him are Bob Gibson, Sammy Sosa, Carl Yastrzemski, Shohei Ohtani, Ernie Banks, and Ken Griffey Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Hideo Nomo ranks 378. Before him are Kleber Mendonça Filho, Dariusz Michalczewski, Andy Jassy, Johann Olav Koss, Hu Jun, and Ara Malikian. After him are Aureliu Ciocoi, Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani, Nana, Leeroy Thornhill, Diego Fuser, and Valeriya.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideo Nomo ranks 1,821 out of 6,245. Before him are Shunkichi Hamada (1910), Mayumi Aoki (1953), Yoshiyuki Okumura (1993), Yuki Imamura (1976), Hitoshi Saito (1961), and Rie Miyazawa (1973). After him are Masafumi Mizuki (1974), Ryukishi07 (1973), Seiji Aochi (1942), Hideaki Kaetsu (1974), Kenji Takahashi (1985), and Nobuyuki Kojima (1966).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In Japan

Among baseball players born in Japan, Hideo Nomo ranks 3. Before him are Sadaharu Oh (1940), and Ichiro Suzuki (1973). After him are Shohei Ohtani (1994), Hideki Matsui (1974), Yu Darvish (1986), Daisuke Matsuzaka (1980), Koji Uehara (1975), Masahiro Tanaka (1988), Hiroki Kuroda (1975), Kenta Maeda (1988), and Yoshinobu Yamamoto (1998).

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