In the spring of 1964, the Nankai Hawks of Japan's Pacific League
sent nineteen-year-old Masanori Murakami to the Class A Fresno
Giants to improve his skills. To nearly everyone's surprise,
Murakami, known as Mashi, dominated the American hitters. With the
San Francisco Giants caught in a close pennant race and desperate
for a left-handed reliever, Masanori was called up to join the big
league club, becoming the first Japanese player in the Major
Leagues. Featuring pinpoint control, a devastating curveball, and a
friendly smile, Mashi became the Giants' top lefty reliever and one
of the team's most popular players-as well as a national hero in
Japan. Not surprisingly, the Giants offered him a contract for the
1965 season. Murakami signed, announcing that he would be thrilled
to stay in San Francisco. There was just one problem: the Nankai
Hawks still owned his contract. The dispute over Murakami's
contract would ignite an international incident that ultimately
prevented other Japanese players from joining the Majors for thirty
years. Mashi is the story of an unlikely hero caught up in an
American and Japanese baseball dispute and forced to choose between
his dreams in the United States and his duty in Japan.
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