Sadaharu Oh Quotes


The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.


Citations

Oh, Sadaharu, and David Falkner. Sadaharu Oh: A Zen Way of Baseball. Times Books, 1984.

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Sadaharu Oh
Sadaharu Oh
  • Born: May 20, 1940
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Profession: Athlete

Sadaharu Oh, also known as Wang Chen-chih (Chinese: 王貞治; pinyin: Wáng Zhēnzhì), is a Japanese-born Waishengren former baseball player and manager in Japan. Oh holds the world lifetime home run record, having hit 868 home runs during his professional career. He established many NPB batting records, including runs batted in (RBIs) (2,170), slugging percentage (.634), bases on balls (2,390), and on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS) (1.080). In 1977, Oh became the first recipient of the People's Honour Award. He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.