Third in a four-part series
Hideo Nomo's most significant accomplishment may have been making the Japanese game respectable in the eyes of the rest of the world.
Few Major League Baseball executives were interested when agent Don Nomura began to shop him to teams in North America. Most of them thought Japanese baseball Triple-A level.
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