Hideo Nomo walks down a corridor deep within The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, calm and smiling as he high-fives a long line of children calling out his name like a nest of chicks begging for a worm.
Outside the stadium, a Japanese TV announcer is struggling to compose himself.
"Can you believe it?" the announcer asks, as much to himself as to the audience back home. "Can you believe it?"
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