A popular public figure, he starred for Japan’s most popular team and helped cement baseball’s status as the country’s ...

Shigeo Nagashima, who was known in Japan as “Mr. Pro Baseball” and was one of the most famous people in the country during ...

Nagashima helped lead the Giants as they won nine straight Japan Series titles from 1965 through 1973. His equally famous ...

His death was confirmed Tuesday by the Yomiuri ... He was famous in a period before Japanese players like Ichiro Suzuki and Shohei Ohtani began to star in North American MLB.