The Yokohama BayStars reached the Nippon Professional Baseball summit in 1998 behind 12-game winner Daisuke Miura.
Ten years later, the BayStars have unceremoniously tumbled all the way down the mountain, hitting every bump along the way. Now a grizzled 17-year veteran, it's Miura who's taken it upon himself to help right the ship.
Miura recently spurned the chance to compete for a Japan Series title with the Hanshin Tigers, the team he idolized as a child, to stick with the lowly BayStars in hopes of reaching the summit one more time.
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