Entrevistas

1. Welcoming Nomo

2. Nomo's impact on later Japanese players

3. Nomo's personality

4. Nomo attendance boost

5. Dodgers relationship with Japan

6. Walter O’Malley’s philosophy

Kohrogi,Acey

Ex-diretor de Operações da Ásia do Los Angeles Dodgers

Nomo's impact on later Japanese players

Kuroda, Saito, and everybody else that followed behind him, I think it really made them comfortable or confident about performing the major leagues, and a lot of those guys I’ve talked to personally about this, basically they told me that because Nomo-san did it, we knew that there might be a chance, that we could succeed there. And it kind of basically called him a bridge across the Pacific. He built the bridge and we were just able to go across it and you can tell even Kuroda, you can talk to him today and he’ll tell you right now, “if Hideo Nomo wasn’t here probably I wouldn’t be here either.”

beisebol Hideo Nomo Japonês Estados Unidos da América

Data: March 21, 2014

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: Mark Langill

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Acey Kohrogi, ex-diretor de Operações da Ásia do Los Angeles Dodgers e assistente de Peter O'Malley, dono do Dodgers por 20 anos, trabalha atualmente para o MVP Sports Group, exercendo o cargo de chefe do escritório de operações asiáticas. Kohrogi passou duas décadas com a organização Dodger e os ajudou a atrair estrelas da Major League Baseball, tais como Hideo Nomo, Takashi Saito, Hiroki Kuroda, Chan Ho Park e Hong Chi Kuo. Sua entrevista para o Descubra Nikkei foi realizada em conjunto com Dodgers - Brotherhood of the Game, a exposição no Museu Nacional Nipo-Americano. (Setembro de 2014)