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Sadaharu Oh: A Zen Way of Baseball Paperback – July 12, 1985

by Sadaharu Oh (Author), David Falkner (Author)

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The author, a professional baseball player in Japan for twenty-two years and the leading homerun hitter of all time, describes his career, his life, and what the sport has meant to him

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Vintage
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July 12, 1985
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0394741056
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978-0394741055
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; 1st edition (July 12, 1985)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 279 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0394741056
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0394741055
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces

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J. Bierly

Martial arts and baseball

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 7, 2010

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Sadaharu Oh is one of the greatest hitters in the history of baseball. But what interested me about his career was not what he did on the field, but how he prepared off it. His intense training with the Japanese sword to improve his hitting is fascinating. I found myself underlining passage after passage. If you are a martial artist, read this book.

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A terrific book about a terrific man and ballplayer

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 1, 2006

I had always admired Sadaharu Oh from afar as a kid, simply because I knew that he put up incredible home run totals every year while playing only 130 games a season in Japan. After I read this book, I became a huge fan...both of Oh the ballplayer and Oh the man.

If you're a baseball fan, you'll find what you like. He was, after all a ballplayer, and a great one who deserves to be in Cooperstown. His is a great story, and there's a single chapter devoted to the unique batting style that changed him from disappointment to superstar. I've monkeyed around using his flamingo-style batting stance, and I can tell you it added 25-50 feet to my own hits...and I'm no ballplayer. It works.

More important, though, is that this book shows what a truly class act Oh-san is. Although he became the greatest home run hitter in world baseball history, he remained very humble and gave credit to hard work and the guidance of others for his success. There is no Barry Bonds in this man. He is truly worthy of being called a "hero," and that's a word I almost never use.

Get this book!!! I have three copies of it myself, and would never part with any of them. It is one of the best and most uplifting autobiographies I've ever read on anyone, in or out of sports.

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Randy Kadish

Not Your Run-Of-The-Mill Sports Book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 3, 2008

This is not your run-of-the-mill sports book. It is a fascinating book about the great Japanese home run hitter, and how he had to struggle to over come his defects. Falkner brings Oh - and postwar Japan - to life. His writing style is simple, yet beautiful. You don't have to like baseball to like this book. It's inspiring to learn that Oh was on the brink of failure before becoming a very great hitter.

To me the theme of this book is that talent is not enough, that there are people and things outside of us that can help us find our way.

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