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Ota's coaches and teammates call him "Ichiro" in a nod to Japan's biggest star in American baseball, and they can't say enough about both his playing ability and his bowing.

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  1. noun A game played with a bat and ball by two opposing teams of nine players, each team playing alternately in the field and at bat, the players at bat having to run a course of four bases laid out in a diamond pattern in order to score.
  2. noun The ball that is used in this game.
  3. noun A game of darts in which the players attempt to score points by throwing the darts at a target laid out in the form of a baseball diamond.

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  • The Japan Series Champions enter the 2009 season as the team to beat in Japanese baseball. —  News On Japan
  • Nippon Ham Fighters right-hander Yu Darvish took to the bullpen with a power-laden display of pitching Sunday as spring training got under way for all 12 clubs in Japanese baseball ahead of the 2009 season. —  Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
  • Located on a 46-acre property in the municipality of El Toro in the Dominican Republic, the complex will serve as the new headquarters for the Pirates Latin American baseball operations.
  • Prominent South or Latin American baseball players have been inveigled into kidnapping scandals with increasing frequency of late, but usually as victims —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
  • If the ability to crush a baseball was as insignificant compared to character and teamwork as O'Connor implies, why doesn't he advocate for the Yankees to just sign O'Neill, Martinez, —  The Hardball Times
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