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Hero status is something new to Blasingame. He joined the Hawks as a second baseman in 1967 after a dozen so-so seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals and four other U.S. teams. Like many of the 16 Americans now playing beisuboru in Japan (league rules limit the number of foreign players to two per team), he had to be rechristened so that Japanese fans could pronounce his name. Today Don Lee Blasingame of Corinth, Miss., is known throughout Japan as Breiza ("the Blazer," a nickname he earned with the Cardinals for his speed). "Breiza sounds snappy," says...