Now a two-way player for the Angels, the 26-year-old Ohtani has become a real-world Goro Shigeno. Subscribers get early access to this story We’re offering L.A. Times subscribers first access to ...

Ohtani is known to have read “Major,” in which fictional character Goro Shigeno pitched and hit professionally, but not at the same time. Shigeno, ...

Goro Shigeno. Tatsuya Uesugi. Eijun Sawamura. Hyūma Hoshi. All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known worldwide as ...

It chronicles the story of the character Shigeno Goro, who pitches and hits, from his days playing baseball as a kindergarten student in Japan all the way to the MLB. Ad. Trending • ...

Fictional character Goro Shigeno and President Donald Trump would surely agree. David L. Altheide is Regents’ Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University.