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Saturday: Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima visits a shrine to pray for victory -- to no avail. Lions maul his team 11-0. Sunday: Series evened with a 1-0 squeaker, thanks to fine pitching by Hiromi Makihara. Tuesday: Giants win in freezing weather. Fans guzzle 3,000 bottles of hot sake to keep warm. Wednesday: A 12-inning thriller. Lions win 6-5. Series tied. Thursday: Grand- slam homer by Giants pinch hitter Koichi Ogata, left, helps clinch a 9-3 victory. Saturday: Giants win 3-1 and clinch the Series for the 18th time...
Sunday: After a dismal 3-1 loss to the Yokohama Bay Stars, the Giants are just one game ahead of the Chunichi Dragons. Angry fans boo manager Shigeo Nagashima, littering the field with discarded megaphones ($6 each). Analysts link the team's slump to the lackluster performance of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Tuesday: Outfielder Dan Gladden, left, formerly of the Detroit Tigers, dons a kamikaze bandanna for courage. But the crucial game against the Dragons is rained out. Wednesday: Tied with Dragons after disastrous 0-1 defeat. Thursday: Rematch scratched as tropical typhoon Orchid hits...
...Mexico Businessmen Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, Real Estate Developer Abruzzo flew the helium-filled Double Eagle II on a six-day journey from a Maine meadow to a French wheatfield in 1978. Three years later, with Newman and two others, he took off in Double Eagle V from Nagashima, Japan, and crash-landed in Northern California after a four-day flight...
...runs in the eighth inning. The visiting Giants then went on to trounce the Kansas City Royals 7-4 and the Minnesota Twins 6-3. As always, the hustling Japanese traded on the pinpoint precision of their pitchers and the big bats of Oh and Third Baseman Shigeo Nagashima. Known as "Mr. Giant," Nagashima, 35, who has led the league in hitting and runs batted in five times, earns $130,000 a year. Giants Owner Toru Shoriki, noting that his team drew 2,500,000 fans last year (Oriole attendance, 1,057,000), said simply: "We make lot of money...
During the war Japanese officialdom frowned on go as a time-waster. After it came off the blacklist, millions of fans stayed down in the dumps-the game was not the same without Chinese-born National Champion Wu Ching-yuan. Wu had become a convert of Aiko Nagashima, high priestess of the Jiwu cult of Buddhism, and she had said...