More important, Nomo and Park opened the door for other Asian players to come to the U.S.--their numbers have tripled since 1999.

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Nomo won rookie of the year honors, made the All-Star team, pitched a no-hitter and posted a respectable 69-61 win-loss record during his U.S. career.

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Sealock also told the crew members about developments in the Masters golf tournament, and of the baseball no-hitter pitched this week by Hideo Nomo of the Boston Red Sox, Fleischer said.

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The following season Japan's Hideo Nomo joined the Dodgers, becoming the first Asian to play regularly in the majors since Masanori Murakami was a pitcher for the San Francisco Giants 30 years earlier.

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Just as the signing of Jackie Robinson turned many Negro League fans into Brooklyn Dodgers fans in the 1940s, Japanese fans in 1995 so took to the Los Angeles Dodgers after the team signed pitching icon Hideo Nomo that the club started its own Japanese TV network.

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