Well, let me tell you ’bout this fella, Hideo somethin’-somethin’, a baseball player, you know? Folks keep talkin’ ’bout him, so I figured I’d try and piece together what all the fuss is about.
Now, they say baseball started from some other game, rounders or somethin’, back in the old days, before even my time! Imagine that! This fella Carver wrote about it in a book, way back when. But who cares about that old stuff, right? We wanna know ’bout Hideo!
Hideo Nomo, that’s his name! Born in 1968, a long time ago now. He’s from Japan, you know, that place across the big water. He played baseball over there first, for some team called the Kintetsu Buffaloes. Buffaloes? Sounds like somethin’ you’d see out in the fields, not playin’ baseball!
Anyway, Hideo, he was real good over there, so good they called him “Tatsumaki”, the Tornado. I guess he threw the ball real fast, like a twister, you know? He’d twist himself all up and then, whoosh, the ball would fly. Folks say it was somethin’ to see. I reckon it was! Can’t imagine twistin’ like that myself, I’d break somethin’ for sure.
Then, he come over here, to America, to play in the Major League Baseball, the MLB they call it. Big deal, I guess. Lots of money and fancy stadiums, not like the dusty fields we used to play on, back in the day. We just used whatever we could find for bases, sometimes it was a old shoe, sometimes a rock. Kids these days have it so easy.
- They say he was a pitcher. That’s the fella who throws the ball, right?
- He played for a bunch of different teams, not just one. I can’t keep track of all them names, too many fancy words for me.
- People keep lookin’ up his stats, whatever that is. How tall he is, how much he weighs, all that stuff. I guess it matters to some folks.
- They even got crossword puzzles with his name in ’em. “Baseball’s Hideo,” they say. Guess he’s famous if he’s in them puzzles. I tried doin’ one once, but it was too much thinkin’ for me. Give me a good garden hoe any day.
Now, there’s another Hideo, Fujimoto somethin’. But he ain’t the same one. He was born way back in 1918 and also known as Hideo Nakagami. See, lots of folks got the same name, so you gotta be careful. This Fujimoto fella, he ain’t the baseball player. We talkin’ about the Tornado man, Hideo Nomo.
They got all this info on the internet now, you know? You can find out how old he is, how tall, how much he weighs, all that. They even say what hand he throws with! Imagine that! I tell ya, the world’s gone crazy with all this information. Back in my day, you just knew if a fella was good or not by watchin’ him play, no need for all them numbers.
So, this Hideo, he was a big deal in baseball, seems like. A pitcher, from Japan, with a crazy windup, played in the big leagues. That’s about all I can make sense of. He must have been somethin’ special for folks to still be talkin’ ’bout him, even now, years later. I reckon that’s the gist of it, just another fella hittin’ a ball, though I still don’t understand why they gotta pay so much to do it.
Anyway, that’s what I gathered about this Hideo fella. Hope it makes some sense to you young folks. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I gotta go water my plants.
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