Dodgers giving Shohei Ohtani ball for World Series Game 7
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Cocochan Hayakawa, a chatty parrot with nearly 48,000 followers on Instagram, is one of millions of admirers of Shohei Ohtani.
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Where Shohei Ohtani ranks alongside Barry Bonds and baseball's most feared hitters of all time
Bonds drew 688 intentional walks, averaging an intentional walk once every 18.3 times he stepped up to the plate. Nobody has ever and presumably will ever come close to that mark. However, Ohtani is quickly becoming more fearsome for pitchers.
As the Dodgers chase another World Series title, one fan’s incredible pull is turning heads in the sports collecting world. A one-of-one Shohei Ohtani card, with its own emotional origin story, could now fetch nearly half-a-million dollars.
It is hard to escape Shohei Ohtani in Japan, even while the country was glued to its own World Series equivalent. To Japanese fans, Ohtani is just about perfect: He hits home runs, pitches great, steals bases and has a reputation for being kind and humble.