He was Shohei Ohtani before Shohei Ohtani. He was a left-hander from Japan who signed with Anaheim. His fastball was clocked at 102 mph. He was also a fearsome hitter who once launched a home run that ...

Fantasy and reality. The great Japanese baseball player Shohei Ohtani (now with the Los Angeles Angels), who is an outstanding pitcher as well as a powerful hitter, was inspired by a fictional ...

Growing up in Japan, Shohei Ohtani, aka Shotime, reportedly read comic books about Goro Shigeno, a fictional Japanese boy who hit and pitched baseballs and grew up to play for a pro baseball team in a ...