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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Nobuhiko Matsunaka, Kris Benson, Jose Contreras, Troy Glaus, Mark Kotsay, Jeff Weaver, Braden Looper, Jeff Williams, Jin Kab-Yong, Jacque Jones, Travis Lee, Cho In-Sung, Jim Parque, Omar Linares, Tadahito Iguchi, Augie Ojeda, Billy Koch, Rob Cordemans, Pedro Luis Lazo, Eduardo Paret, Seth Greisinger, Micheal Nakamura, Antonio Pacheco Masso, Makoto Imaoka, Luis Ulacia, Masanori Sugiura, Son Min-Han, Orestes Kindelan, Yoshitomo Tani, Lee Byung-Kyu, Lim Sun-Dong, Juan Manrique, Lazaro Vargas, Cho Jin-Ho, Antonio Scull, Alberto Hernandez, Ormari Romero, Omar Ajete, Miguel Caldes Luis, Masao Morinaka, Peter Vogler, Omar Luis, Takeo Kawamura, Rey Isaac, Eliecer Montes de Oca, Jose Estrada Gonzalez, Evert-Jan 't Hoen, Eelco Jansen, Jorge Fumero, Johnny Balentina. Excerpt: Nobuhiko Matsunaka Matsunaka Nobuhiko, born December 26, 1973 in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan) is a left fielder and designated hitter for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. Matsunaka is the only active hitter in Japanese professional baseball to have ever led the league in all three Triple Crown categories in the same season. He played in the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Olympics as well as the 2006 World Baseball Classic, hitting cleanup in 1996 and 2006. Matsunaka was born in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, and attended the local Yatsushiro First High School (currently Shugakukan High School). He joined Nippon Steel Corporation Kimitsu Works, a team in the Japanese industrial leagues, upon graduating high school in 1991. In 1996, 22-year-old Matsunaka, then still a first baseman for Nippon Steel-Kimitsu, gathered national attention when he hit a game-tying grand slam in the finals of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics against Cuba as a member of the Japanese national team. He was picked in the second round of the 1996 amateur draft by the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks. Matsunaka made his ...
