Sadaharu Oh played professional baseball in Japan for the Yomiuri Giants from 1959 to 1980. In those 22 seasons, he batted .301 with 868 home runs. That's 106 more home runs than the MLB's leader Barry Bonds. Who, might I add, is 7 times the size of Sadaharu Oh. After he ended his career in 1980 he took four years off and then he began coaching. First with his former team, the Giants, and then in 1995, he took over managing for the Hawks. He now owns the record for most wins by a manager in Japanese baseball.
The point of this blog is not to honor this legend of the Japan league because he could have been hitting those home runs out of little league parks for all we know. I'm writing about him because I know what he was doing between 1980 and 1984: He was acting in a movie directed by Steven Spielberg that would also become famous world-wide.
E.T. phone hOHme.
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