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Oh, Sadaharu

Oh, Sadaharu (sä"dähär'OO ō) [key], 1940–, Japanese baseball player. A first baseman for the Tokyo Giants, he retired after 22 seasons with a lifetime total of 868 home runs, outpacing the American major league record (755) of Henry Aaron. Josh Gibson may have hit even more in the Negro Leagues.

See his autobiography (1984, with D. Falkner).

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