Oh amassed 868 career home runs and is considered by many to be one of the greatest baseball hitters of all time. He spent his entire career with the Yomiuri Giants and played in four decades.

Japan’s career home run leader Sadaharu Oh has been hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported on Friday. Kyodo cited the Japanese club the SoftBank Hawks, where Oh ...

Actor Josh O'Connor turns 35 and baseball legend Sadaharu Oh turns 85, among the famous birthdays for May 20.

With a combined 2,337 home runs between them, Sadaharu Oh, Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron were featured on the the biggest chase card from the 2024 Topps Transcendent cut signature booklet earlier this ...

Baseball legend Sadaharu Oh (王貞治) is to throw the first pitch at the newly completed Taipei Dome on Saturday next week before the 30th Asian Baseball Championship begins the following day, the Chinese ...

Munetaka Murakami, a 22-year-old third baseman with the Yakult Swallows, tied Sadaharu Oh's single-season Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) home run record for Japanese-born players on Tuesday.

The solo-shot broke the legendary Sadaharu Oh’s record for most home runs hit in a single season in the league by a Japanese-born player, set in 1964.

He became the youngest player to hit 40 home runs, surpassing Hall of Famers Sadaharu Oh and Koji Akiyama, who accomplished the feat at 23, and became the first player to homer in five consecutive ...

Former baseball player Shigeo Nagashima, who was once one of Japan's most famous sports stars, has died aged 89. He died of pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo, according to a statement released by his ...

Actor Josh O'Connor turns 35 and baseball legend Sadaharu Oh turns 85, among the famous birthdays for May 20.