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1959
The "Emperor's game‚" the greatest in Japanese baseball history‚ is played by the Yomiuri Giants and the Hanshin Tigers‚ with Emperor Hirohito and his wife attending at Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium. The game is tied 4-4 in the 7th on Giants rookie Sadaharu Oh's 2-run HR‚ then won 5-4 in the last of the 9th on a HR by the Giant's Shigeo Nagashima. This starts the famed "O-N cannon‚" the hitting combination of Oh and Nagashima‚ that will bring the Giants 9 pennants between 1965 and 1973. In all‚ the O-N cannon hits dual HRs in 106 games.
Just thought this O-Ne was neat.
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