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Sadaharu Oh

1940 - Today

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Sadaharu Oh (Japanese: 王貞治, Ō Sadaharu; born May 20, 1940), also known as Wang Chen-chih (Chinese: 王貞治; pinyin: Wáng Zhēnzhì), is a Japanese-born Chinese former professional baseball player and manager who is currently the chairman of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Oh's playing career spanned across four decades, during which he played for only the Yomiuri Giants. He holds the world career home run record at 868, over 100 more than MLB record holder Barry Bonds. Oh batted and threw left-handed and primarily played first base. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sadaharu Oh is the 5th most popular baseball player (down from 4th in 2019), the 599th most popular biography from Japan (down from 352nd in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Baseball Player.

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Sadaharu Oh ranks 5 out of 91. Before him are Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, and Lou Gehrig. After him are Cy Young, Hank Aaron, Alexander Cartwright, Ty Cobb, Ichiro Suzuki, Willie Mays, and Ted Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Sadaharu Oh ranks 144. Before him are Taihō Kōki, Lorenzo Baldisseri, Lei Feng, Ruth Dreifuss, Antonio Skármeta, and Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy. After him are Víctor Erice, Hiroshi Katayama, Mike Hailwood, Sam Waterston, Wilma Rudolph, and Richard Pryor.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sadaharu Oh ranks 599 out of 6,245. Before him are Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), Otozō Yamada (1881), Emperor Junnin (733), George W. Casey Jr. (1948), Dom Justo Takayama (1552), and Kunihiko Kodaira (1915). After him are Hiroshi Amano (1960), Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192), Zenkō Suzuki (1911), Emperor Chūkyō (1218), Emperor Suzaku (923), and Takeo Takagi (1892).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In Japan

Among baseball players born in Japan, Sadaharu Oh ranks 1. After him are Ichiro Suzuki (1973), Hideo Nomo (1968), Shohei Ohtani (1994), Hideki Matsui (1974), Yu Darvish (1986), Daisuke Matsuzaka (1980), Koji Uehara (1975), Kenta Maeda (1988), Yoshinobu Yamamoto (1998), and Jung-hoo Lee (1998).

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