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Olympic Games 2000
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Japan Roster - Olympic Games 2000 - Sydney, Australia
Japanese Olympic Roster announced
TOKYO (Japan) - The roster of the national team of Japan will include eight players of the professional Japanese Baseball League. One of the players is Norihiro Nakamura of the b>Kintetsu Buffaloes, who leads the Pacific League with 25 homeruns ans also has 73 RBI's. Another member is 19-year old pitching sensation Daisuke Matsuzake of the Seibu Lions. The Pacific League allowed its six teams to let one player participate. The owners of the six Central League-teams refused as they will be in the final phase of the regular season during the Olympics.
(August 24)
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Japan Olympic Roster
PitchersTeam or Professional Organization (*)
Yoshikazu DoiNippon Life Insurance
Masanori IshikawaAoyama Gakuin University
Masato KawanoHiroshima Carp (*)
Tomohiro KurokiLotte Marines (*)
Daisuke MatsuzakaSeibu Lions (*)
Toshiya SugiuchiMitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki
Masanori SugiuraNippon Life Insurance
Shunsuke WatanabeNippon Steel Kimitsu
Akichika YanadaRitsumeikan University
Yuji YoshiniTohoku Fukushi University
CatchersProfessional Organization
Shinnosuke AbeChuo University
Kosuke NodaNippon Steel Kimitsu
Fumihiro SuzukiChunichi Dragons (*)
InfieldersProfessional Organization
Jun HeimaToshiba
Nobuhiko MatsunakaDaiei Hawks (*)
Norihiro NakamuraKintetsu Buffaloes (*)
Osamu NogamiNippon Life Insurance
Yoshinori OkiharaNTT East
Yukio TanakaNippon Ham Fighters (*)
OutfieldersProfessional Organization
Norihiro AkahoseiJR East
Jun HiroseHosei University
Tomohiro IizukaNTT East
Yoshihiko KajiyamaMitsubishi Motors Kawasaki
So TaguchiOnix BlueWave (*)
Coaching StaffFunction
Kozo OtagakiManager
Hiroyuki HayashiCoach
Osamu NomuraCoach
Keiichi NagasakiCoach

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