When Hideo Nomo debuted for the Los Angeles Dodgers on May 2, 1995, he was only the second Japanese-born player to appear in the majors, and the first in 30 years. The maneuvering needed to reach that ...

In what might be one of the coolest hobby announcements that we’ve seen in the last twenty years, Topps recently announced that the first licensed Hideo Nomo autographs since 2005, would be released ...

Peter Magowan was as curious as anyone about how Hideo Nomo would handle it. Magowan is the owner of the same Giants club that had put Masanori Murakami on the mound in 1964-65, the only other time a ...