History happened. Progress happened. The history belonged to Manny Machado, who now has 2,001 career hits and 357 career home ...

1988 — Steffi Graf ends Martina Navratilova’s six-year reign as Wimbledon champion with a 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 victory. It is the first time in nine finals that Navratilova loses a Wimbledon singles match.

Few have been spared in the raids. They’ve taken people who came to Southern California from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, ...

Nomo’s pitching form was distinctive and unconventional, even in Japan. Nomura: One game he pitched, they were winning 11-2, he’s going nine innings with 172 pitches. And he got hurt.

The vast majority of fans never knew it was there, just like the deep bond with Japan, but in 1995 that bond struck gold. Nomo-mania. "Hideo Nomo was a great player, but not just a great player.

In Japan, however, leaning on talented starting pitchers was commonplace. By 1994, the years of overuse led to a shoulder injury that limited Nomo to 114 innings.

In Japan, however, leaning on talented starting pitchers was commonplace. By 1994, the years of overuse led to a shoulder injury that limited Nomo to 114 innings.

Sports From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan’s baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series Even in American baseball’s lower levels, Japanese players are making their presence felt.

In 1934, an American team featuring the best baseball players in the world – Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and more – went on a barnstorming tour around Japan. More than half a million ...

Hideo Nomo was not the first Japanese player to play in MLB. That honor belongs to Masanori Murakami, who played two seasons with the San Francisco Giants in 1964 and 1965 as part of a cultural ...

But it was thirty years later when pitcher Hideo Nomo came to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995 that Japan's presence in the big leagues really started to be felt. His unorthodox delivery ...