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

Walter O’Malley’s philosophy

From what I understand Walter O’Malley’s philosophy was to help Japanese baseball. By helping Japanese baseball, it’ll be good for the Dodgers at the end. So that philosophy led to Taiwan, Korea, Australia, and so on too, but we supported Japanese baseball so we would bring in-1958 we had players from Tokyo Giants, the manager, come train with us. Tokyo Giants won nine victories in a row after Tommy Lasorda goes to Miyazaki to teach Dodger way of baseball. Nine straight victories by the Tokyo Giants, the manager Kawakami credits the Dodger way of baseball to that nine straight championship.

And everyone in Japan at that time knew it. So I think from Walter O’Malley’s philosophy of helping Japanese baseball to where we are today, it led to that I believe.

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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)